[Retros] Distance-PG

Noam Elkies elkies at math.harvard.edu
Sun Aug 28 19:47:08 EDT 2016


Eric Angelini <Eric.Angelini at kntv.be> wrote53w::

> yes, it can be improved by 1/2 a move simply by reversing sides
> with the same idea:
>
> 1. h2-h4  Ng8-f6
> 2. Rh1-h3  Nf6-e4
> 3. Rh3-d3  Ne4xd2
> 4. Rd3xd7  Nd2xBf1
> 5. Rd7xc7  Nf1-e3
> 6. Ng1-h3  Qd8xQd1++
>
> I don't know if the solution is unique.

Alas it is not unique because White can play Ng3-h3 also on move 4 or 5.
Olli Heimo's construction avoided that by replacing Rd7xc7 by Rd7xe7
(which happens to be check, but this was not needed).

NDE


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