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Subject: Re: Helpmate

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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