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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Chess problem of causing probelms.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.093730.652@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 09:37:30 EST
- References: <PHR.92Dec23124354@napa.telebit.com> <1992Dec24.001423.23983@pony.Ingres.COM> <haha.725395615@vipunen.hut.fi> <1992Dec26.183055.644@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec26.183055.644@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- > In article <haha.725395615@vipunen.hut.fi>, haha@vipunen.hut.fi (Harri Haanp{{) writes:
- >>> Obligatory chess question: Does there exist a chess position in
- >>> which Black has enough material to mate White in theory, but Black
- >>> cannot mate White even with White's cooperation, while on the other
- >>> hand White can mate Black without Black's cooperation?
- >>
- >> K . k r b . . . Now certainly KRBP should be enough material to mate
- >> P . . p . . . . against KPPP. In this particular position, however..
- >> . . . P . . . .
- >> . P . . . . . . White (caps) to move.
- >> . . . . . . . .
- >> . . . . . . . . C. S. Kipping (Chess 1936)
- >> . . . . . . . .
- >> . . . . . . . . 2X
- >>
- >> Harri H.
- >
- > Not quite. Move the bishop, the rook goes free, and the board changes.
- >
- >
- >
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- Whoops, my mistake. White does have a forced mate. I missed that white moves
- first in this problem.
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