Author: Albert Silver
Date: 08:36:02 01/01/00
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On December 31, 1999 at 11:29:08, Steve Lopez wrote:
>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.
Thank God I didn't read it. I am still having fun solving it. I think the failed
attempts can truly be interesting.
Here is one of my failed attempts :-) -->
1.e4 e6 2.Nc3 Ke7 3.e5 Nf6 4.Ne4 Ne8 5.Nf6 Rg8 6.Nxg8# Arghh!!!!!!
Albert Silver
>
>-- Steve Lopez
>
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