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| Posted by alice02 uskidscompute.com 4/27/2006 16:13:34 play online chess |  Subject: CT ART Ex No 1172Message: For those who have the chess programme CT ART Is the point of this exercise (1172, 20 points so should be easy!) to take the f4 bishop and E4 knight or can white avoid this? The exercise stops when black seems to have gone down 2 points. So a beginner does not really see the outcome. This is one of those strange CT exercises where the solution plays one way (captures with queen as first white move). But if you go back to the beginning of the exercise and choose play current position and play the first move it doesnt make that move - it moves the f1 rook. Can someone please help sort this out. |
| Posted by alice02 uskidscompute.com 4/27/2006 16:15:02 play online chess | oops not queen, knight Message: |
| Posted by alberlie uskidscompute.com 4/28/2006 01:06:08 play online chess | Message: |
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