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firerods
this is my first puzzle which i have posted in the forum topic enjoy it n comments are welcome.
Nachos
very nice
nerdie
nice
kembro13
TonightOnly
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the_chairman
basically anything you do in chess is almost garentied to have happened somewhere before. yes this puzzle is known by lots of people but so are your games that you play. i guarentee that your games were once played by someone else before you. its the way the game is
Poppycock!
I am sorry, but this is absolutely ridiculous. To actually think that it is possible to guarantee that chess games have happened before, it is quite clear that you have played very, very little chess. Even if you stick to only the most popular mainline theory, the chances that your game will have occurred before is infinitesimal. To say that pretty much anything in chess has happened before is even more ridiculously ignorant.
Worst of all, though, is attempting to defend someone that has obviously taken a classic endgame puzzle and claimed it as their own work.
NM Reb
Is Poppycock similar to Hogwash ?
ashwath
its nice yaar.......
hope we meet in a online game.....
Playing an opening that has been played before is nothing like taking someone else's work and calling it their own, and there is nothing pathetic with wanting to hold someone like this accountable.
Perhaps you do not understand how much pride problemists have in their work. To call someone else's puzzle their own, even unwittingly, is quite a serious infringement. Think about it. If you plagiarize, it doesn't matter if you meant to or not, it is still illegal. Composers have no domain over musical ideas, such as chord progressions, but all it takes is six notes in a row of a melody to be grounds for copyright infringement.
Perhaps he was just trying to say that it was the first puzzle that he has posted, but then any misunderstanding would have to be chalked up to bad English in the op. If you look at my first post, I simply asked him to explain why he had called it his puzzle, and did not accuse him of stealing the puzzle.
Lastly, you have misquoted me about how many repeated games of chess I suspect there have been. I am sure that some have been repeated, and opening traps probably have been played many times similarly. However, if you play a game to the endgame, there is an incredibly small chance that it has ever been seen before, even in the entire history of the game. If you don't believe me, check out the math on how many possible positions can occur after each move.
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