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Subject: Re: What about chritsnmas puzzle?... I want the solution !!!

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 02:48:22 02/05/00

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>Here it is in EPD format:
>rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq -
>rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq e3
>rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/5n2/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq -
>rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/5n2/8/4P3/5P2/PPPP2PP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq -
>rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/8/8/4n3/5P2/PPPP2PP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq -
>rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/8/8/4n3/5P2/PPPPQ1PP/RNB1KBNR b KQkq -
>rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/8/8/8/5Pn1/PPPPQ1PP/RNB1KBNR w KQkq -
>rnbqkb1r/ppppQppp/8/8/8/5Pn1/PPPP2PP/RNB1KBNR b KQkq -
>rnb1kb1r/ppppqppp/8/8/8/5Pn1/PPPP2PP/RNB1KBNR w KQkq -
>rnb1kb1r/ppppqppp/8/8/8/5Pn1/PPPP1KPP/RNB2BNR b kq -
>rnb1kb1r/ppppqppp/8/8/8/5P2/PPPP1KPP/RNB2BNn w kq -
>
>I would post the PGN, but some people may be working on it for fun still, and
>you have to think a tiny bit harder to read EPD directly.  In fact, I suspect
>that anyone who can easily read this stuff and see the board positions in their
>heads will probably have solved it easily enough anyway.

Doh doh. I can see the solution from the epd you posted, but I couldn't find it
myself (hate to admit that I searched for like 3 hours).

>I saw the same theme in a Scientific American magazine about 30 years ago.  It
>seemed more compelling to me, as this one is something of a helpmate.

Yes, but it is beautiful. It is no trick or anything, we poor solvers simply
don't have the right idea.

--Georg



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