Derrick Peterson, Flat Earth and Fake Footnotes (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021), 359pp., $44.00 (pbk), ISBN: 9781532653339.

The question is prompted by Eugene Charniak's (1978) recent editorial introducing the new 'Theoretical Notes' section. The idea of such a section is excellent, but I am dubious about one aspect of it. Charniak writes that one of its functions will indeed be to present neat solutions to small problems. He illustrates the idea with R. McGuire's observation of the difference in the acceptability o...

ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am deeply indebted to Michal Young, my advisor. He gave me guidance when I needed it, and supplied me a salary, travel expenses, and equipment for my research. He has always been there for me, as an advisor and a friend. I am also grateful to my committee, Richard A. DeMillo and Eugene Spaaord, as well as Greg Frederickson, for reading the dissertation and ooering valuable ...

Ken Thompson recently communicated some results mined from his set of 64 6-man endgame tables. These list some positions of interest, namely, mutual zugzwangs and those of maximum depth. The results have been analysed by the authors and found to be identical or compatible with the available or published findings of Karrer, Nalimov, Stiller and Wirth.