Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 11:49:49 03/01/01
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On March 01, 2001 at 14:29:21, Sune Larsson wrote: >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? Not that it matters that much, but I have never known a Norwegian with the name Kvekkenstedt. Kvekkenstedt sounds German to my Norwegian ears and a Norwegian "transcription" of Kvekkenstedt would probably be Kvekkestad. Anyway, the book must be very interesting, if this where you find all this nice endgames Sune! Torstein > > 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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