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Subject: Re: Curiosity: Can White Win This One?

Author: Hans Havermann

Date: 07:59:22 03/21/98

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On March 15, 1998 at 21:16:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>               14->   1:22   0.00   1. c4 b5 2. cxb5 axb5 3. axb5 Nxb5+
>                                    4. Ke7 Nc3 5. Kf7 Kb7 6. Kxg6 Ne2 7.
>                                    f5 Nxg3 8. b5 Kb6
>
>
>doesn't see a win, does see a dead draw...

Thank you, Bob. I was able to run your 14.6 Mac-port overnight on the
position and it's still a draw after 16:

               16-> 391:21   0.00   c4 b5 cxb5 axb5 axb5 Nxb5+ Ke7 Nc3
                                    Kf7 Ne2 Kxg6 Nxg3 f5 Nxf5 <EGTB>

I presume the <EGTB> is reliance on a tablebase. This program is quite
the CPU-hog and I'm not sure it was taking advantage of the RAM I had
assigned to it, since it was doing some furious read/writes to my hard
drive. I suppose this is because it is a "simple" port and that is how
the program runs on non-Mac systems.

Hans Havermann
Rarebit Dreams




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