[Retros] fairy retros

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I can see this activity as a sport in the case of challenges such as "can one present a position in which a bishop must have made 62 moves?" or "what is the smallest number of units one must have on the board to present a position in which the last move must have been Ka2xPa3?", and even in the case of competitions such as "who can solve this problem first?". 



But there is a lot of very interesting retroanalysis (as well, of course, as chess composition in other genres) that doesn't involve those kinds of challenges or competitions, and I suspect that this latter part of the discipline is the one that will be more resistant to the forces that Andrey sees as trivializing human chess-playing.



Best regards,

Tom Volet












-----Original Message-----
From: afretro <afretro at yandex.ru>
To: Otto Janko <retros at janko.at>
Sent: Fri, Sep 11, 2009 11:56 pm
Subject: [Retros] fairy retros



Dear Tom,
hanks for joining the discussion and for supporting orthodox retros.
t present, the game of chess is in many ways not what it used to be some 20 
ears ago. I recall how back in the 1970s Voice of America news report headlines 
epeatedly began with the result of the latest game between Fischer and Spassky 
r between Korchnoi and Karpov. At present, headlines of this sort are 
nthinkable. Man was defeated by computer and chips can be implanted in one’s 
ar for informing the player of computer’s best move choice, etc; in another 20 

ears or so the game of chess will probably remain as a marginal amateur sport 
nly… I do hope that composition, including retroanalysis, will last longer. By 
he way, Plaksin mentioned fellow composers’ talk of “retroanalysis exhaustion” 
s early as 1973, I think.
any fellow composers do regard chess composition as, above all, a sport type, 
nd secondly, as art. If we consider retroanalysis to be an art type only, then 
he discussion of judgment of fairy retros alongside of orthodox ones becomes 
eaningless, because art requires no judgment. More than that, judgment in many 
ases simply kills art.
ours sincerely,
ndrey
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