On Oct 7, 2:47 am, help bot wrote:


Many problemists created positions which bear
almost no resemblance to real-world chess play,
while others proclaimed a mate-in-257-moves with
absolutely no way to back it up. (Me, I have trouble
seeing more than about a hundred-fifty moves ahead,
unless it's just Queens or Rooks on the board).

Maybe that is why you don't see any way to back it up. Sometimes
composers spend years doing the gritty analysis for such problems, and
they can "back it up." I've seen long problems often accompanied with
20-30 pages of analysis, or the length of one of your favorite comic
books (or is that "graphic novel?")There are more things in chess,
helpbot, than you apparently have room for in your "philosophy."