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Subject: Re: Testposition - Bishop Rivalry O.T.

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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