What happened to the castling thread?

Originally posted by Fat Lady
From what I've read it seems that a friend of his, Max Pam (http://www.maxpam.nl), actually came up with the idea originally. Krabbé composed the problem which took advantage of it.

Does Pam claim that or Krabbé? If Pam says it and Krabbé does not confirm it, it is quite possibly a lie. Wouldn't be the first one. The man is a columnist for the Amsterdam Grachtengordel audience's favourite gossip magazine, after all. And for Dutch political television, where his spoken columns are also... very much his own.

Richard

Originally posted by Fat Lady
SPOILER (partial solution #3)

Here is the third line.
[pgn]
[FEN "8/8/4P3/3p4/2p3p1/1pP1kPPp/1P5P/R3K2R w KQ - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]

{--------------
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . P . . .
. . . p . . . .
. . p . . . p .
. p P . k P P p
. P . . . . . P
R . . . K . . R
white to play
--------------}
1. e7 Kxf3 2. e8=R Kg2
[/pgn]
And ...[text shortened]... o this where Black's king moves to d3 and c2 and White mates with e7, e8=R and O-O-O-O.

If the number of 0's corresponds to the number of squares the Rook moves, it's 0-0-0-0-0-0 for castling with the promoted Rook!

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Does Pam claim that or Krabbé? If Pam says it and Krabbé does not confirm it, it is quite possibly a lie.

I'm just relying on Google. The page I found was here:
http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=275126
Which claims to be quoting from Krabbé's book:

"You may want to know what 0-0-0-0 means. It is 'Pam-Krabbé' castling (my friend Max Pam conceived the idea), a new move apparently in accordance with the FIDE rules (art 6.1)"

Originally posted by Fat Lady
I'm just relying on Google. The page I found was here:
http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=275126
Which claims to be quoting from Krabbé's book:

"You may want to know what 0-0-0-0 means. It is 'Pam-Krabbé' castling (my friend Max Pam conceived the idea), a new move apparently in accordance with the FIDE rules (art 6.1)"

If Tim Krabbé says it as well, I believe him. It is phrased differently in the Dutch original, but it's quite possible that he did mention Max Pam in the English translation (which I don't have).

Richard