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Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 03/30/07 22:34
In alt.html, you wrote:
> On Mar 30, 5:36 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2007-03-29, Ben C wrote:
>>
>> > On 2007-03-29, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >>> >If you want a chess puzzle (and the graphic is not so bad), look
>> >>> >at:
>>
>> >>> ><http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/binHassad/missingKing.ht
>> >>> >ml>
>>
>> That is taken (uncredited) from "Chess Mysteries of the Arabian
>> Knights" by Raymond Smullyan.
>
> I am not quite sure I like the sound of your parenthetical remark. It
> is not a conclusion you should be jumping to without careful
> consideration. I might arrange for my seconds to be calling on yours.
I await the visit. Please bring chess sets and clocks.
The position is from the front cover of the book, published in
1981. The story is in the style used in that book, though it is not
(as I thought) taken directly from the book.
> News to me. How I got it has been indicated publicly ages ago
Presumably post-1981.
> (you search! I have a bad head cold. Which is my excuse for leaving
> off the semi-colon in JK's proposal for a queen char, there is a
> little story behind this omission btw, but let me not bore you.
> Sorry, JK. Or put up some money and I will try to find it). It came
> to me via a Guardian chess puzzle competition in the following
> manner: a friend, who is a club player and usually pretty good at
> these things was stuck. He asked me because of my fearsome
> reputation after solving The Desert with just simple logic and
> addition/subtraction, also a unique solution to Rubik's Cube in 1985
> when layed up for months with a skeletal condition (which in no way
> hampers my duelling technique, don't get your hopes up, Chris).
I only duel over the chessboard.
> I have no idea if The Guardian acknowledged it or not. I hope that
> book of yours does not have one of those silly end pages with
> solutions. The silliest thing I have ever, ever, seen are Sudoku
> books with solutions! What could possibly be their use?
I have mixed feelings about books with solutions in the back.
What's the alternative?
> Forgive me, I am delirious with feverish cold...
Get well soon.
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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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