Author: Sam Lloyd
Date: 20:45:43 03/30/04
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On March 30, 2004 at 17:57:10, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On March 30, 2004 at 14:07:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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... > >Just one 'l' in Sam Loyd. He's been dead for a long time, incidentally. > >Dave That Sam Lloyd;-)...well some write it with two 2 l's, some don't. BTW he lives on.....read his work.
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