Author: Steve Lopez
Date: 08:29:08 12/31/99
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On December 31, 1999 at 02:56:30, Pete Galati wrote: >On December 31, 1999 at 01:16:45, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>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.) >> >>I realize that I did something boneheaded. Was it a contest or something? > >A contest at rgcm? Ok, yeah right, theres a few _ego_ contests there I guess. >But if someone saw your post, and then sat down and looked at your ept positions >closely enough to get the answers from them, then that's there own fault if they >wanted to figure it out themselves. Not necessarily. I opened the post and (without playing through the moves) saw *immediately* three key things from the PGN gamescore: 1) that there was no "trick" answer (as is sometimes the case with Fred's puzzles -- a sudden earthquake doesn't move the Rook to f3 or anything); 2) I saw which side (White/Black) was the one that achieved the mate; 3) I saw Black's first move. This was MUCH more information than I wanted. I know now that Dann didn't realize what was going on when he posted, but there had been requests in the two rgcc threads to *not* post the answer (including the initial post in one of the threads). Anyway, I wish Dann no ill will. I'm just pretty disappointed. And, yes Pete, it was a contest at ChessBase GmbH's website as well as in ChessBase Magazine. I'm disqualified from winning the prize, but I was still having a pretty good time trying to solve the problem. -- Steve Lopez The Chess Kamikaze Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/ludekdudek/ The Chess Kamikaze Club: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/chesskamikazes
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