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Subject: Re: Neat Problem ...

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 16:52:42 12/11/02

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On December 11, 2002 at 18:37:32, Art Basham wrote:

>White mates in about 7 or 8 ....
>
>See if you can find the correct first move here
>*before* you "ask your computer"...:-)
>
>Some engines have trouble with the first move on this one!
>
>RxQ...No!
>
>[D]5k2/3qR3/1p1r4/p2p4/3P3Q/3B3P/P4PP1/6K1 w - - 0 1

This is typical of the positions I have taken from my games.  In each case, I
played the wrong, but often "obvious," move in the actual game and later learned
during post-mortem analysis that there was something much better.

Study of positions you failed to solve in the past seems a good idea to me.

Bob D.



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