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From: y7179@dalcs.UUCP (Dave Hackett)
Newsgroups: net.chess,net.puzzle
Subject: Another Chess Puzzle
Message-ID: <780@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 12:11:52 EST
Article-I.D.: dalcs.780
Posted: Fri Mar  2 12:11:52 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 01:59:06 EST
Organization: Dalhousie U, Halifax N.S.
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    I've been faithfully reading net.chess, but have never 
participated in any network articles before. This will be my first!!!
I was recently strolling around the library looking for reference
material ( an exciting afternoon ) when all of a sudden a book jumped
off the shelf and begged me to read it. Well that book turned out to
be full of chess puzzles. I forgot about ever thing I was suppose to
do and read the book from cover to cover.
    I would now like to challenge the other net.chess readers in 
trying to solve some of these problems, since I was only 
successful with about 4 out of 30.


The first problem reads like this:

       Black (lower case)
---------------------------------
| r |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |      White is to mate  in one move
|-------------------------------|     -------------------------------
| k | P | R |   |   |   |   |   |
|-------------------------------|
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |     Important note:
|-------------------------------|           The solution for this puzzle
| K |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |     is no longer viable. Historically 
|-------------------------------|     the rules for chess have been  
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |     clarified many times, and it was
|-------------------------------|     the last rule clarification that
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |     no longer permits such a move.
|-------------------------------|
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |     Hint:
|-------------------------------|           All pieces still move the same,
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |     think about the promotion rule!!!!
---------------------------------   
       White (upper case)

    Note:  This was an actual game played in a major tournament.   

     As a final note I must give credit to the author Raymond Smullyan
for these wonderful  puzzles. I've given many hours trying to do them - with
little success.

    - solution to be posted next week or  mailed for those who can't wait.
	   mail to decvax!dartvax!dalcs!y7179

					  Another bewildered chess player
					       Dave Hackett