Guaranteed headache: Church Verses State EPD test set

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Guaranteed headache: Church Verses State EPD test set

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Mate in 3 positions that are literally guaranteed to give you a headache.
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Re: Guaranteed headache: Church Verses State EPD test set

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Here is a problem like those, but one ply deeper (it is a mate in 4). Note that each problem has a single solution.



spoiler down below.





































bm Bb6+;
ce 32760;
dm 4;
pv Bb6+ Nc7 Bbxc7+ Ke8 Bhxg6+ Nxg6 Bxg6#;
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Re: Guaranteed headache: Church Verses State EPD test set

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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...
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Re: Guaranteed headache: Church Verses State EPD test set

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Quotes are not needed for the id field if it does not contain spaces.
There are many test sets with that format.
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