I'm still looking at your 8x8 solution. I thought I found some weaknesses, but I looked again and I had presumed wrong.

Yes, I still think this is an excellent study, and that to the extent that he recommends it to anyone who wishes to improve their play, Jose Raul Capablanca was, and remains a good counsel.

I have found myself too busy to drop everything and generate my answer just yet. I am very much interested, though. I hope everybody with the time to spare on this doesn't leave me in the dust because I have other duties to which I must attend. Please consider keeping a record of these proceedings, so that I will be able to see later what I missed.

Income tax, property tax, end of the month, kids are sick, Girl Scout Cookie pay-up time, new songs for Lent, fix the lawnmower, some vandal broke the back window of my Volvo station wagon (he's lucky I didn't catch him), banking, paperwork, computer upgrades, family wants to go on a vacation, another house in escrow, water pump leaks on the Plymouth, plus general maintenance. Oh yes: work, too.

I'll be back! /Fx/