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Subject: Re: A Christmas puzzle

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 04:15:20 12/27/99

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On December 27, 1999 at 07:11:56, Olaf Jenkner wrote:

>>>No, go ahead try. You have to make a kind of helpmate engine (no alpha beta) and
>>>search for the specified condition.
>>
>>
>>Mmh...
>>
>>In fact I was just trying to find an excuse to not do it... :)
>>
>>And if a computer program finds the solution, it is less fun I think.
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>It takes about 30 hours with my modified helpmate engine.
>But it is only brute force, without any heuristics.
>
>Without computer I solved the puzzle within 90 minutes.

:(

After an hour or so I got a mate in 11 plies, but not 10. I hate puzzles. :)

Enrique




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