Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 07:22:57 03/07/02
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On March 07, 2002 at 04:57:41, Sune Fischer wrote: >On March 07, 2002 at 00:24:32, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>>I gave it all the thought it deserved. I assume _legal_ positions. I don't >>>care for positions with rooks "in transit" or any other such nonsense since >>>FEN does _not_ allow for such, and for good reason... >>> >>So? Why trample on a composition of Beauty? >> >>Look at the position for what it is. A very clever composition! >>> > >I don't know if I would call it clever, it is more of a chess joke than a chess >problem. The idea is to trick the reader into forgetting that castle is >possible, with the poor reader spending hours trying to get the mate in 4 >reduced to a mate in 3. > >However, I will now modify my program to check for this and claim illegal fen, >don't want to fall for the same trap twice. > >-. I wouldn't call any problem created by Sam Lloyd a joke, he's my favorite chess problem/mate composer of all time! Well one of them!;-) You could say trick the reader, but actually he knew the postion was legal, it was up to the solver to see past his bias, in this case to see castling is possible. All the problems I've solved by this composer have always been original and very clever! I'm glad though you're making adjustments for such problems in the future:) Terry
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