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Subject: Re: Tough Endgame : you have 5 min. to find correct move for White!

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 07:17:26 07/31/99

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On July 30, 1999 at 20:07:08, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 29, 1999 at 17:47:39, Terry Ripple wrote:
>>On July 29, 1999 at 17:26:56, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>[snip]
>>>The pawn is at f4, not e4, so make that:
>>> 8/8/1p3k2/3p4/2bP1P2/2K5/2B5/8 w - -
>[snip]
>>The header states that white to move plus the choices i show would have to be
>>white to move, don`t you think?
>It was perfectly obvious, and I should have gotten it right the first time.
>Heiner was just pointing out the obvious.
>
>FWIW, if positional questions are posed as FEN or EPD, they can be inserted
>directly into most chess analysis programs without making screw-ups like I did.
>
>So for the sake of morons like me, it might be better to pose questions in that
>format.

Nonsense. I much preferred your incorrect position than the correct one. I
printed it and studied it on the bus (no sane person drives downtown here in Rio
if they can help it) and had a dickens of a time trying to prove White could
win. In the end I must admit that despite White's impressive looking position,
Black can hold.

                               Albert Silver



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