[Retros] Shaving yet another Queen off "N1AK"?

Kevin Begley kevinjbegley at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 19:46:10 EST 2011


Here's a better version of N1AQ:
2b1kb2/1pppppp1/8/7P/7P/7P/PPPP3P/R1B1KB2 (12+9) *still very heavy*!
Stip: Add one unit.
Sol: +bQd8

Kevin



On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Kevin Begley <kevinjbegley at gmail.com>wrote:


> Errr, not busted... what on Earth was I imagining?

> And that gaffe was in mid-day. :-)

>

>

>

> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Kevin Begley <kevinjbegley at gmail.com>wrote:

>

>> Ooops, busted Noam... +bka7 last move is the same.

>>

>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Kevin Begley <kevinjbegley at gmail.com>wrote:

>>

>>> Noam,

>>>

>>> Very nice!

>>> fen is: 5Q2/6Q1/7Q/4K3/Q7/2Q5/1Q6/3Q4

>>> Seems correct to me.

>>>

>>> Kevin

>>>

>>> ps: I didn't see anything for N1AQ, or N1AS...

>>> I thought I'd provide a heavy answer to the first problem, if only to

>>> fill in the table...

>>> Needless to say, I expect it will be vastly improved.

>>>

>>> fen: 3Nr1rk/pppppppp/8/8/7P/8/PPPPP1PP/RNBQKB1R (16+11) *very heavy*!

>>> Add one unit.

>>> +bQf8

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Noam Elkies <elkies at math.harvard.edu>wrote:

>>>

>>>> Kevin Begley <kevinjbegley at gmail.com>wrote:

>>>>

>>>> > I shaved one unit off N1AK.

>>>> >

>>>> > fen: 8/8/7K/8/QQQQQQQQ/8/8/8

>>>> > Stip: Add one unit.

>>>> > Sol: +bKh8

>>>>

>>>> Does this attempt at removing another Queen work?

>>>>

>>>> . . . . . Q . .

>>>> . . . . . . Q .

>>>> . . . . . . . Q

>>>> . . . . K . . .

>>>> Q . . . . . . .

>>>> . . Q . . . . .

>>>> . Q . . . . . .

>>>> . . . Q . . . .

>>>>

>>>> White Ke5, Queens a4,b2,c3,d1,f8,g7,h6

>>>> (I'm visiting a friend so can't reliably construct FEN)

>>>>

>>>> Add one unit: +bKe7

>>>>

>>>> NDE

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