[Retros] Codex of Chess Composition (was: Another Update of theRetro Corner)

liskov at im.bas-net.by liskov at im.bas-net.by
Sat Jan 6 11:57:18 EST 2007


Otto Janko <otto at janko.at> wrote:


> > > Obviously you disagree, there was an intermediate version

> > > of the codex agreed on 1973. Can you provide the text changes

> > > agreed in Imola?

> >

> > I disagree only in essence but I think I have never heard on

> > a _formal_ intermediate version of the codex (Piran+Imola), nor

> > even on a formal text of Imola's decisions (e.g., in EG35 (p.53)

> > it is only pointed out that in Imola, "revisions of the 1958 Piran

> > Codex with respect to retrograde analysis were adopted").

>

> What is it good for to "adopt revisions of the Codex" if no one knows about

> it? Is it documented somewhere, even if it did not lead to a formal

> intermediate version?


Nevertheless we definitely understand, and accept, what has been claimed
in Imola-73; this was actively discussed that time in the press (particularly
in Die Schwalbe); the marks RV and AP are in legal use since then.
A restricted but significant correction to Piran [a more perfect declaration
than before but insufficient up to now, in my opinion].

Valery




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