Fern,fern wrote:I am afraid you are in an awful state of delirious tremend.
The games whose details you have posted appertain to a tournament celebrated in Baden Baden in 1904, where a predecessor of Moron prepared by my grand grand father, running in penciled notes, destroyed a similar program prepared by your gran grand father. You put it all in reverse.
As you know well, after the conclusion of the tournament, that Moron won 10-0, our grand grand fathers were involved in a quarrel in the middle of a ball and they went to a garden for a duel with pistols.
Both missed the shots and finished the night getting drunk and friendly in a bar.
Nevertheless, the result was the same: Moron won.
All this you can meet in a history book wrote by German scholar, Herr, otto Diesel, an important book for chess history called "Great games in Baden Baden 1904", not a great tittle but good enough
.You can find the book in the Vatican library.
I hope this leaves everything clear and please no more words about this issue.
Fern
since my buddy Benedict resigned the papal chair and left it for a South-American (:x), I'm not allowed anymore in the Vatican library. Therefore, I cannot verify your preposterous claim. Also I think that the pre-Moron engine was disqualified as it was actually programmed to play Tic-Tac-Toe and only won due to an unfortunate affair with the arbiters wife (which, as you know, 9 months later had as a result your grand-father entering the scene.)
It is likely though that our grand grand fathers had this episode in Baden Baden as my father's line is well know for their drunkards.
On a second thought though, it could be me who was drunk in Baden-Baden....
Axel
Undisputed WCCC-Champion Baden-Baden 1904 & Munich 2014