[Retros] FLL picture
Noam Elkies
elkies at math.harvard.edu
Wed Aug 11 10:37:01 EDT 2010
> This is another kind of retro-analysis I'm looking for ;-)
> The hereunder link shows a 1936 picture of Fran=E7ois Le Lionnais.
> He stares at a game of chess. Or at a chess problem? [...]
> ... but someone claims now that "there is a pawn on c6 [...]
Indeed there is. That makes it a mate in 3 by Shinkman.
See <http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/tour/forks.htm>.
Enjoy,
--NDE
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