Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 02:44:24 12/05/01
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Yes,human solvers,in 1987 chess programs were not that strong and so readily
available.Besides,it is not so easy to find out,without silicon help, why the
first move should be Qxb3,the Black player(in 1983) couldn't. JAFM
"A tricky one that has baffled many solvers" is the sentence chosen by BCM
to call attention(in its _cover_!)to this position,as far as I know the only
occasion when BCM published a position in its cover.So this position,as easy
as it may now seem to chess programs,has some degree of fame.As a matter of
fact,the Qxb3 move was found by the son of the world-famous poet W.B.Yeats.
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