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Subject: Re: pre-chess

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 13:54:52 05/16/04

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> Max Euwe was a world chess champion (not significant information) and also he
>held a PH.D. in math (very significant). So it's astonishing he was wrong about
>this trivial problem. The other three I didn't know about.

It seems to me he tried to compensate for vertical reflection as his figure is
exactly half that of Noam Elkies, but forgot that positions where castling is
possible, do not have a equivalent mirrored position.

Richard.



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