[Retros] Retrograde analysis in other forms

Gianchess at aol.com Gianchess at aol.com
Wed Jul 3 12:35:55 EDT 2013


Greetings

Apparently this is the missing diagram:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/an-old-puzzle2

Gianni


In a message dated 7/3/2013 9:51:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
andrew at anselan.com writes:


Hi Steve,
Well it’s not Conan Doyle, and it’s not Sam Loyd, but it’s an interesting
historical artefact – thanks for digging it up. Surprising that the
Virginia Edu library doesn’t have the diagram, without which the story is
meaningless.
From: retros-bounces at janko.at [mailto:retros-bounces at janko.at] On Behalf
Of Steve Dowd
Sent: 02 July 2013 23:39
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Subject: Re: [Retros] Retrograde analysis in other forms


http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=AllHapp.sgm&images=image
s/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
is the Allen story from the Strand.



On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Andrew Buchanan <_andrew at anselan.com_
(mailto:andrew at anselan.com) > wrote:
Anyone got a copy of "A Happy Solution" short story by Raymond Allen 1916?
Found reference to it here:
http://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/178/is-there-fiction-dealing-with-r
etrograde-chess-analysis

Yes Memento heh



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This is well known:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flanders_Panel
Best,
É.

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Le 27 juin 2013 à 20:11, "Joost de Heer" <_joost at sanguis.xs4all.nl_
(mailto:joost at sanguis.xs4all.nl) > a écrit :


> Andrew,

>

> 'Memento' is even better :)

>

> Joost

>

> On 06/27/2013 07:36 PM, Andrew Buchanan wrote:

>> The best backwards story I know is the movie Momento.

>>

>> *From:*_retros-bounces at janko.at_ (mailto:retros-bounces at janko.at)

[mailto:_retros-bounces at janko.at_ (mailto:retros-bounces at janko.at) ] *On

>> Behalf Of *Steve Dowd

>> *Sent:* 27 June 2013 01:32

>> *To:* The Retrograde Analysis Mailing List

>> *Subject:* [Retros] Retrograde analysis in other forms

>>

>> 70 years ago today, the radio program The Whistler featured

>> retrograde analysis in that a plot for a crime was worked out from

>> the end rather than the beginning. The program was called The Blank

Wall.

>>

>> This program is usually among the more interesting radio plays, but I

>> found the story rather uninteresting and the ending rather trite.

>> There are a number of web sites where the story can be found if you

>> are interested.

>>

>> Steven B. Dowd

>>

>>

>>

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