Then the Babson task has no intrinsic value in the way you put it. All chess problems, published and unpublished,…
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The black AUW in a hs#2 is a simplified s#2. 100 years later I'm unable to see any intrinsic value.
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Initial Alain's problem - https://yacpdb.org/#262521 In hs#-genre there are very strict requirements to loading of both White and Black pieces…
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It's easy to tranform an age-old s#2 to show the hackneyed AUW in a hs#2. For example: Alain C. White,…
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Thanks Joost. You have reminded me of a s=165 by Sphicas too that is in PDB: https://pdb.dieschwalbe.de/P1329015 However the solution…
On No.1621 (JM)
Sorry Congratulations Aleksey ! ?
On No.1622 (AO)
Congratulations Aleksandr for this nice improvement ! AUW is always an important theme in help genres. Sebastien
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[Round "-"] [White "-"] [Black "-"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [FEN "8/p1pr4/1p6/2p1p1R1/nqp4k/2b2Q2/r1p1bP1K/2n5 w - - 0 1"] [SetUp "1"] {-------------- . .…
On No.1621 (JM)
George Sphicas published a s=154 in Strategems in 2003. It's not marked as C- in Winchloe.
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Is Bh1 really necessary?
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