Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 10:23:44 12/05/01
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On December 05, 2001 at 05:44:24, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > 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. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world. > Pierre Mac Orlan Yes, I've experimented that silicon monsters are showing many surprises if we take "oldie" human only analyzed problems and re-analyse them with their help... sometimes you can expect a better solution than the original one, even if this can be hurting to people having a "poetic" only way of thinking in chess. w.b.r. Otello
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