Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 17:58:08 12/31/03
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On December 31, 2003 at 13:43:42, Steven Edwards wrote: >On December 31, 2003 at 13:31:56, Ed Trice wrote: > >>This was the Qh5+!! sacrifice, correct? > >Yes; a mate in ten. One variation found by Symbolic's low level search goes: > >(1. Qh5+ Nxh5 2. fxe6+ Kg6 3. Bc2+ Kg5 4. Rf5+ Kg6 5. Rf6+ Kg5 6. Rg6+ Kh4 7. >Re4+ Nf4 8. Rxf4+ Kh5 9. Rg3 Bxe6 10. Bg6#) Symbolic is an extremely interesting project, and I hope you succeed in creating a super strong engine with your unusual approach. However, forced mate positions like this one are not a good way to measure progress. Solving them quickly is easily achieved by more conventional methods (the above position is solved in 7 plies and only a couple of seconds by Gothmog), and does not necessarily imply high playing strength in normal games. Tord
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