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Subject: Can any computer program figure this out? So far none ever have.(FEN)

Author: James Swinney

Date: 10:35:44 04/16/00

Here is a brilliant little problem that a friend of mine came up over 10 years
ago that we have tried on countless chess progams and none have ever figured
this out. I tried it on Fritz 5.32 with 64 meg hash tables overnight and it blew
up at the 41st ply !!
Here is the FEN
6bn/2k2prq/5prp/5pbn/5p1p/1Kp2PpP/2P3P1/8 w - - 0 1

The problem is white only sees that he is down tons of material and is quite
content to find a draw by perpetual check after queening his pawn. While a human
would see that all of blacks pieces are useless and play it out as a won king
and pawn ending.
Please try this and see what results you get.
James

• Re: Can any computer program figure this out? So far none ever have.(FEN) Ed Schröder 20:45:05 04/16/00
• Re: Can any computer program figure this out? So far none ever have.(FEN) Victor Valenzia 14:04:37 04/16/00
  • Re: Can any computer program figure this out? So far none ever have.(FEN) mike schoonover 19:09:29 04/16/00
    • Re: Can any computer program figure this out? Diagram Chessfun 21:02:35 04/16/00
• Re: Can any computer program figure this out? So far none ever have.(FEN) blass uri 11:00:45 04/16/00
  • Re: Can any computer program figure this out? So far none ever have.(FEN) Timothy J. Frohlick 13:30:52 04/16/00
  • Re: Can any computer program figure this out? So far none ever have.(FEN) Colin Frayn 11:56:21 04/16/00
    • Re: Can any computer program figure this out? So far none ever have.(FEN) Jeroen van Dorp 17:20:48 04/16/00

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