y7179@dalcs.UUCP (Dave Hackett) (03/02/84)
I've been faithfully reading net.chess, but have never
participated in any network articles before. This will be my first!!!
I was recently strolling around the library looking for reference
material ( an exciting afternoon ) when all of a sudden a book jumped
off the shelf and begged me to read it. Well that book turned out to
be full of chess puzzles. I forgot about ever thing I was suppose to
do and read the book from cover to cover.
I would now like to challenge the other net.chess readers in
trying to solve some of these problems, since I was only
successful with about 4 out of 30.
The first problem reads like this:
Black (lower case)
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| r | | | | | | | | White is to mate in one move
|-------------------------------| -------------------------------
| k | P | R | | | | | |
|-------------------------------|
| | | | | | | | | Important note:
|-------------------------------| The solution for this puzzle
| K | | | | | | | | is no longer viable. Historically
|-------------------------------| the rules for chess have been
| | | | | | | | | clarified many times, and it was
|-------------------------------| the last rule clarification that
| | | | | | | | | no longer permits such a move.
|-------------------------------|
| | | | | | | | | Hint:
|-------------------------------| All pieces still move the same,
| | | | | | | | | think about the promotion rule!!!!
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White (upper case)
Note: This was an actual game played in a major tournament.
As a final note I must give credit to the author Raymond Smullyan
for these wonderful puzzles. I've given many hours trying to do them - with
little success.
- solution to be posted next week or mailed for those who can't wait.
mail to decvax!dartvax!dalcs!y7179
Another bewildered chess player
Dave Hackett