Archive for February 5th, 2010

We gave you the solutions for the first five or our 2009 Christmas
puzzles a few days ago. Here is part two, which contains all the pretty
letter problems submitted by GM Pal Benko, the construction problem provided by
Indian GM Sandipan Chanda, and the solution to a truly unique chess problem composed
back in 1991 by mathematician Noam Elkies. Enjoy.

Nine players were tied for first after ten rounds, and four went into the tiebreaks. British GM Michael Adams eliminated first Jan Gustafsson of Germany in an Armageddon game, and then Francisco Vallejo (who had knocked out Indian GM Sandipan Chanda) to take overall victory at the Gibtelecom Masters in Gibraltar. There was a prominent visitor during the second half of the event. Final results.