Author: Howard Exner
Date: 22:17:19 02/24/00
No it's not the sequel to "Analyse This" but an odd position I discovered while I was recently looking for a Kevin Spraggett article in my old chess magazines. It is a 1913 study by J. Krejcik from Nathan Divinsky's column in "En Passant" #110 from 1991. [D]8/1p1p4/3p2p1/5pP1/1p3P2/1P1p1P1k/1P1P1P1p/5K1B w - - If you set your chess program to blitz, and autoplay this I'll wager that some programs will stumble on to the winning sequence of moves. Running with the king to a2 and marching back to its initial position, forcing black to move a pawn - repeat till black's pawn moves are exhausted, when the Black King must finally move. It's of course not meant as a find the winning move test as it runs around 100 moves to its completion. Perhaps 2 minutes per side or less could reveal some programs making this crazy to and fro march.
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