5 Comments

1. Nicholas Gruen

   June 26, 2009

   So who's worked out the move without looking. I certainly didn't. It's a rip snorter.

2. Patrick

   June 27, 2009

   I wonder, do I give myself net credit for thinking of it, or net dunce's hats for writing it off almost as quickly? Surely the latter, unfortunately :(

3. Patrick

   June 27, 2009

   I wonder, is this just the kind of move that we are amazed by but that a computer would always see?

4. Nicholas Gruen

   June 27, 2009

   And if you think about the move, most variants end up in the immortal game format - which is to say with the winner's remaining pieces all in the mate of the enemy king.

5. TimT

   July 2, 2009

   That's the classic game they have in my family's edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, though less for this move than what comes before it (ie, the demonstration of the classical principles of development and centralisation.)