You're correct. A quick search for grotesque chess puzzles produces this by Otto Blathy from 1922:
with almost the exact same position, and identical idea in the key (second) move. I can assure you that this wasn't plagiarism but an incredibly striking instance of convergence.
Originally posted by doodinthemood You're correct. A quick search for grotesque chess puzzles produces this by Otto Blathy from 1922:
[fen]8/8/8/2p5/1pp5/brpp4/qpprpK1P/1nkbn3[/fen]
with almost the exact same position, and identical idea in the key (second) move. I can assure you that this wasn't plagiarism but an incredibly striking instance of convergence.
Originally posted by doodinthemood You're correct. A quick search for grotesque chess puzzles produces this by Otto Blathy from 1922: ...
with almost the exact same position, and identical idea in the key (second) move. I can assure you that this wasn't plagiarism but an incredibly striking instance of convergence.
i wrote a play called hamler and then discovered that someone called shakespear had written someting very similar a long time ago, harmonic convergences really do happen
Originally posted by coquette i wrote a play called hamler and then discovered that someone called shakespear had written someting very similar a long time ago, harmonic convergences really do happen
You're angry? Pah...
In a previous life as a lowly turnip farmer, I wrote the play Othello between March and November 1599. I was quite impressed with myself.
But then this horrible, violent man named Will came at me with a sword one cold evening, stole my turnips and my play and went on to perform it four years later.
In a previous life as a lowly turnip farmer, I wrote the play Othello between March and November 1599. I was quite impressed with myself.
But then this horrible, violent man named Will came at me with a sword one cold evening, stole my turnips and my play and went on to perform it four years later.
And you think you've got it tough!
I was walking along, minding my own business with a nice new sword sometime between March and November 1599, when some guy named Will came and bopped me on the nose and stole my sword saying "O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade; Justice to break her sword! One more, one more."
I did notice he already had quite a collection of swords, but wondered why he needed mine.
Originally posted by Gastel And you think you've got it tough!
I was walking along, minding my own business with a nice new sword sometime between March and November 1599, when some guy named Will came and bopped me on the nose and stole my sword saying "O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade; Justice to break her sword! One more, one more."
I did notice he already had quite a collection of swords, but wondered why he needed mine.
If only I had this Will character before me now, I'd grab him by the throat and say to him "If you bethink yourself of any crime, Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight." I'd explain, "I would not kill thy unprepared spirit."
Then, after a short pause in case he did need to pray for a moment, I'd beat him to death with a trusty turnip.
P.S: Cheers for the reply 😀, I thought I was going to get panned.
Man this is embarassing. And what's more, there's no way of proving the fact that I didn't copy someone else's puzzle. If you start from the idea of having the queen moving up and down on the bottom left, then the piece above it has to be a bishop, above and to the right has to be a rook surrounded by pawns, and down and to the right has to be a knight. If you continue from there wanting the key to be moving one pawn so the rook can be taken without queen protection you cannot really avoid getting such a similar position.
Grotesque
31 Jul '07 19:18
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