Author: Martin Baumung
Date: 06:30:41 01/25/05
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On January 25, 2005 at 07:21:26, Helmut Conrady wrote: >On January 24, 2005 at 15:04:07, Martin Baumung wrote: > >>On January 24, 2005 at 12:44:19, adam wilks wrote: >> >>>What does helpmate mean? Who is the chess solving world champion? Does kasparov >>>or any of the top 10-20 players play this, if not why not? >> >>John Nunn is the current world champion. He won the 2004 world chess solving >>championships. >> >>Cheers, >> >>Martin > >Yes, but he is champion for all current problems, not only helpmates. > > >Helmut Yes of course helpmates are only one discipline. But Adam asked who the chess solving world champion is, not who the helpmate world champion is ;-) And iirc John Nunn was the only participant to solve all helpmates. So you might as well call him the 2004 world helpmate champion :-) Cheers, Martin
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