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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