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George Duke wrote on Fri, Aug 3, 2007 03:55 PM UTC:
Besides Maharajah and Sepoys, Martin Gardner books of S.A. columns have
many Chess examples. MG features this one by Lord Dunsany, who drew
Capablanca in simultaneous exhibition 1920's.  White (small letters) to 
  R__N__B__K__Q__B__N__R    play and mate in four. This is legal position
  P__P__P__P__P__P__P__P    that could occur in actual play of mad-Queen,
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __     'FIDE', Chess.
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __     kcalB no gnieb ton neeuQ kcalB :noitanalpxE
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __     kcalB os, devom evah  K & Q snaem erauqs
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __     morf noitisop tneserp rieth dehcaer snwaP
  r__n__b__q__k__b__n__r                      .draob fo edis rehto
  h  g  f  e  d  c  b  a      Therefore (actually Move 40, or 60),
                              1 N-d7
If ...N-h3, mate in two more moves.
If ...N-f3, mate in three more moves.

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