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- From: elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
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- Subject: Sextupled pawns Re: Quadruple pawns
- Keywords: sextupled a-pawns!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.224738.19839@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:47:37 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan26.224738.19839
- References: <1993Jan26.054608.2373@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.054608.2373@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- achar@ecn.purdue.edu writes:
- >Another one of those "once in a while" games.
- >[Amusing ICS games with quadrupled Black e-pawns omitted]
-
- ...which reminds me:
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- White: Ke1, Ra1, pawns a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,a7
- Black: Ka8
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- k _ . _ . _ . _
- P . _ . _ . _ .
- P _ . _ . _ . _
- P . _ . _ . _ .
- P _ . _ . _ . _
- P . _ . _ . _ .
- P _ . _ . _ . _
- R . _ . K . _ .
-
- Two puzzles:
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- i. (easy) White to play and mate in 8.
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- ii. (considerably harder) is the position, and the solution, legal?
- [That is, could this arise by legal --- albeit ridiculous --- play
- from the initial position?]
-
- --Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
- Dept. of Mathematics, Harvard University
-