9 Apr
2016
9 Apr
'16
3:15 p.m.
Sounds like what FDR did with the US Navy at Pearl Harbor with a battleship sacrifice gambit. (The US aircraft carriers, on the other hand, were "out on maneuvers"; i.e., the US had already castled.) At 01:53 PM 4/9/2016, Hans Havermann wrote:
The story appears in Edward (no relation to Emanuel) Lasker's 1950 (lots of references have it 1949 but I can't confirm that) "The Adventure of Chess". There's a slightly abridged version of it here:
http://www.chessbanter.com/rec-games-chess-misc-chess/16595-giving-queen-odd...
On Apr 9, 2016, at 5:54 AM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
Probably apocryphal...