I will up the ante, if Fencer can accommodate. I will start to compute the B + N database on Saturday. When it is done, I will need a day to hook it up to some form of graphical user interface. I will probe the database for the most difficult position.

Any who wishes may enter the contest to try and win most swiftly against the database from the hardest position.

Whoever wins the quickest will receive a Gothic Chess set for the cost of the postage.

This is provided that

a) Fencer can provide some sort of temporary interface to set up positions for the purpose of this contest

b) the games remain private

c) those involved before other participate do not give away the position.

On a final note, I reserve the right to change the position if there are more than one arrangement taking the same length to win.

Is anyone interested? Send me an email to GothicChess@aol.com if you are, tell me your nickname on here, and I will post the official entrants online.

Fencer will verify that each name is unique, and that someone is not using more than one handle from the list.

--Ed