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Subject: Re: Hal's children

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 17:55:15 03/31/04

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On March 30, 2004 at 23:45:43, Sam Lloyd wrote:

>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.


I have... which is published with one 'l'. :-)

Dave



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