Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 07:25:31 10/15/01
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On October 14, 2001 at 23:43:59, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >On October 14, 2001 at 11:28:53, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>On October 13, 2001 at 23:48:51, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >> >>>This is WCSAC 738: >>>[D]r1b2r2/3pNpkp/3pn1p1/2pN3P/2PnP3/q3QP2/4BKP1/1R5R w - - bm Qh6+; >>> >>>Der Bringer with "two best options" in analyzing mode finds >>>after 10 plies that Qh6+ is Mate in 11. Funny is that the uninteresting >>>move Qd2 is also mate in 11!! Unbelievable what computers can find. >>>Another cook and another position from WCSAC eliminated. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Miguel >> >>The position is missing a couple of pawns, one crucial! >> >>[D]r1b2r2/1p1pNpkp/3pn1p1/2pN3P/2PnP3/q3QP2/p3BKP1/1R5R w - - bm Qh6+; >> >> >>So the answer is *only* Qh6+!! > >Qh6+ is the only move that lead to mate in any case. It was a bug that lead >to think that Qd2 could also be correct. Anyway, why do you say >that the position is correct with the pawn in a2? You got it from the >the book? (hardcopy). > >Regards, >Miguel > >> >>Terry Hello Miguel, no I didn't get it from the orignal hardcopy, but from En Passant #99 Nov.-Dec. edition 1989. The Canadian Chess Magazine. It was copied from the Oxford Campanion to Chess, page 291. It was a game between P.F. Schmidt - P.R. Schmidt, Heidelberg 1946. So, although it's a copy from my chess magazine it is most likely the correct position. Although they could have gotten it wrong, most likely they didn't as it was taken from the original source by a Canadian Master, Gordon Taylor who was the editor of En Passant at that time. Gordon Taylor wrote the article. His rating at the time was 2421 CFC and his FIDE rating was 2335. The article is called, What is the C.M.A.? ; (Check Mating Attack). Regards, Terry
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