Posted by dorayme on 03/30/07 08:42

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.

News to me. How I got it has been indicated publicly ages ago (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 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? Forgive me, I am delirious with feverish cold...

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