Author: Frederic Friedel
Date: 03:07:00 12/31/99
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On December 31, 1999 at 00:10:49, Charles Milton Ling wrote: >If you want to solve this problem by yourself, do NOT, repeat NOT look at >rec.games.chess.misc. The answer is posted there, by mistake I believe. >And, yes, it is beautiful. (And yes, I doubt that I would have solved it >myself. But I would have enjoyed trying some more.) DAMNATION. Hope very few people see it. I'm still getting 20-40 emails per day with people enjoying the intense pain of not being able to solve it. And lots of wrong answers by amateurs, mainly with overlooked checks, or mates that aren't mates. Here's a random example from the latest batch of ten Christmas Puzzle mails this morning: "My solution: 1. e4 Nc6 2. a4 Nb4 3. Ra3 c6 4. d4 Qa5 5. Rd4 Nxd4#. I realized in few minutes that is black who makes the mate! Totally I spent 2 hours and 10 minutes (one hour sleepless at night!). Happy New Year and Millennium!" If he doesn't see the solution he'll have more hours of pleasure in the new millennium.
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