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- From: wchen@beirut.berkeley.edu (William Chen)
- Subject: Re: It is legal to play chess in Yugoslavia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.083624.1437@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:36:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.181439.15595@midway.uchicago.edu> greg@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Greg Kuperberg) writes:
- >I have not yet seen the following comment about the legality of the
- >Fischer-Spassky chess match in Yugoslavia:
- >
- >As far as I know, it is legal for an American citizen to play chess in
- >Yugoslavia or with Yugoslavian citizens or both. What is not legal is
- >many kinds of business activity with Yugoslavian individuals or
- >organizations. Apparently that includes accepting prize money in a
- >Yugoslavian chess tournament or royalties from its commericial
- >activities.
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- Is it legal for American citizens to travel to Yugoslavia?
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- >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?
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- As Yakov Smirnoff would say, "Yep."
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- White to move.
- White: Bf1, Ra1, Ra2, Ka5
- Black: Kh1, Qb5, Rb8
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- White's only move is BxQ mate!
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