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Guaranteed headache: Church Verses State EPD test set
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 12:11 am
by User923005
Mate in 3 positions that are literally guaranteed to give you a headache.
Re: Guaranteed headache: Church Verses State EPD test set
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 12:15 am
by User923005
Here is a problem like those, but one ply deeper (it is a mate in 4). Note that each problem has a single solution.
1n1kn1K1/B5Bn/2nBB1n1/2n4B/B2BBn2/2n3n1/3n4/6BB w - -
spoiler down below.
bm Bb6+;
ce 32760;
dm 4;
pv Bb6+ Nc7 Bbxc7+ Ke8 Bhxg6+ Nxg6 Bxg6#;
Re: Guaranteed headache: Church Verses State EPD test set
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 2:53 am
by hyatt
User923005 wrote:Mate in 3 positions that are literally guaranteed to give you a headache.
These look to be malformed.
In every other EPD file I have, I see
id "xxxxxx"
this has no quotes. Ditto for the pv...
Re: Guaranteed headache: Church Verses State EPD test set
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:17 am
by User923005
Quotes are not needed for the id field if it does not contain spaces.
There are many test sets with that format.