Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:07:01 03/30/04
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On March 29, 2004 at 17:40:17, Sam Lloyd wrote: >On March 29, 2004 at 14:31:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> >> >>Are you the Sam Lloyd that used to fool around with strange chess problem >>positions with Harry Nelson in the Cray Blitz days??? > >Sorry, no. > >Could you provide some links, to this Sam Lloyd? I found one interview with >Harry Nelson back in 1993, which included Cray Blitz, defeating Ken Thompson's >Belle computer. > >http://www.nersc.gov/~deboni/Computer.history/Nelson.html > >Lloyd I don;t have any. That "sam lloyd" was a chess problem fanatic and was well known in problem composition circles... Thanks for replying. "that" sam lloyd broke Cray Blitz many times. :) positions with 1 legal move for a large number of consecutive plies (straightjacket positions) and so forth...
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