In Tales of the Unexpected: 'The best chess player in the world.'
here is a link to full episode.
This position appears (White to play)
I am wondering if anyone has seen this combination or one very like it.
I have been though loads of DataBases even just looking at the
bones of the position, things like this:
But still no luck. Anybody help.
I think it came from a Queen Rook Odds game. But Recreating the
game means you have to give Black a few clumsy moves.
The game ends:
Hi venda,
I have been in touch with the chess advisor for that episode
but he cannot tell me where the game/position came from.
I think it is a composed position from a puzzle book. I have most of the pre
1984 positions from well known books in a D.B. (6600+) but this one is not in there.
I was hoping someone....somewhere...recognised it.
@greenpawn34
I would love to have been a fly on the wall to see his expression when he found the data.