[Retros] Mauldon composition

V.Liskovets liskov at im.bas-net.by
Fri Sep 27 19:49:11 EDT 2002


Dear retro-friends,

TV wrote:


> The following letter appeared on the list, to which aol doesn't seem to

> let me simply reply. The composition is the one I referred to in my

> recent mail in which Mauldon doubled the four cornered rook task.

> It originally appeared in an article in The Problemist. The article also

> contained a very economical setting of the basic task by the (aging)

> retroanalyst residing in Princeton (who, to continue an odd concatenation

> of events, was also at Amherst College during the time JGM taught there).



>> Who knows, where following retro of J Mauldon has been published for the

>> first time? See ref:

>> http://www.softdecc.com/pdb/search.pdb?expression=PROBID='P0006058'


Let me clarify Tom's reply. The problem by Professor Mauldon was first
published in The Problemist, July 1980, No 4, p.64 (#C: "Paths of
Rb1/Rd2?"), in the article 'The four corners of the realm' by T.Volet
(the article contains also two more originals, by G.Donati and TV).

Valery Liskovets






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