Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 12:26:18 03/01/01
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On March 01, 2001 at 14:49:49, Torstein Hall wrote: >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! Thanks for the comments! The Study DB I mentioned is actually a CD from ChessBase. But the positions posted are from several different sources. > >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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