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Subject: Re: Testposition - Bishop Rivalry

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 11:29:21 03/01/01

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On March 01, 2001 at 14:04:24, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On March 01, 2001 at 13:38:03, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>
>>  8/6p1/P1b1pp2/2p1p3/1k4P1/3PP3/1PK5/5B2 w - - 0 3
>>
>>  Queckenstadt (Kvekkenstedt?) 1922
>>
>>  The two Bishops were fighting their own battle, while their Kings
>>  were watching. It was all about proving suited for the elevation
>>  to Archbishop. The struggle was tense when suddenly one of the Bishops
>>  realized that he could achive his goal by actually giving himself up.
>>  As a true religious man he did so. Transfered himself to g2 (1.Bg2!)
>>  and faced his rival. Left with no choice his shocked brother in faith
>>  entered the same square (1.-Bxg2) and found himself in a deserted land.
>>  After 2.e4! the door was closed. Desperately the Bishop tried to open
>>  it again, but could he do it in time?
>>
>>
>>  Test: If your program could search deep enough to find the win for white.
>>        If not - try it with 1.Bg2 played.
>>
>>  Sune
>
>Deep Fritz, Deep Shredder and Junior 7 beta are not having a very religious day,
>or at least they don't find Bg2 in less than 5 minutes on the dual P933. Great
>position, Sune.
>
>Queckenstadt  and Kvekkenstedt are names or Sweedish words?

 That's the name of the author. And I have seen these two different
 spellings. In the Study DB he's called Queckenstadt, which sounds
 a bit German to me. Kvekkenstedt is more a Norwegian name. But I'm not
 familiar with this man.
>
>Enrique



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