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[Noam Elkies]

Yes, this is the customary greeting.  The position

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(C+ Popeye 3.41 in ~3.75 hours) might look familiar: I sent the same
last year with the Black Rook on e3 instead of d3.  This year I thought
I might find a way to get something like this to work with a 16+0
position instead of 16+16, but wasn't able to realize any of the
candidate mathematical structures in that realm.

Happy 2012,
--NDE