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Subject: Re: Hal's children

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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