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Subject: Re: Christmas Tree Problem

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 20:58:50 12/24/05

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On December 24, 2005 at 20:50:49, Mark Ryan wrote:

>On December 24, 2005 at 20:30:05, Alessandro Scotti wrote:
>
>>On December 24, 2005 at 20:14:19, Mark Ryan wrote:
>>
>>>http://www2.forthnet.gr/chess/xmasmil.html
>>>
>>>I do NOT know the answer.
>>
>>[D]8/3p4/3p4/2pPp3/1pPkPp2/1n1p1n2/P2p2P1/3K4 b - - - -
>>
>>Kiwi can't see it either...
>>
>> 3/ 9  +7.92  00:00       524  Ng5 axb3 Nxe4
>> 4/ 4  +7.92  00:00       579  Ng5 axb3 Nxe4 g3
>> 5/ 5  +9.44  00:00      3290  Ng5 axb3 Nxe4 g3 fxg3
>> 6/ 7  +9.52  00:00      3998  Ng5 a3 Nxe4
>> 7/21     M4  00:00    114504  Ng5 g3 Nh3 axb3 Kc3
>
>It must be an en passant capture on either c3 or e3, but I cannot see why there
>is only ONE solution.  I suppose this is a retrograde analysis problem.
>
>Mark

I solved it in few minutes and understood the reason that there is only one
solution.
I sent the solution by email but I am not going to post the solution here.

Uri



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