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

Author: blass uri

Date: 11:00:45 04/16/00

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On April 16, 2000 at 13:35:44, James Swinney wrote:

>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

[D]6bn/2k2prq/5prp/5pbn/5p1p/1Kp2PpP/2P3P1/8 w - - 0 1

This position is illegal position because there are 7 black pawns that could
never be in a-b files.

programs do not need to know to play illegal positions

Uri

• 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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