Author: pete
Date: 09:59:09 04/20/00
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On April 19, 2000 at 16:15:46, blass uri wrote: >On April 19, 2000 at 15:20:25, pete wrote: > >>On April 19, 2000 at 13:07:23, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>[snip] >>>6bn/2k2prq/5prp/5pbn/5p1p/1Kp2PpP/2P3P1/8 w - - 0 1 >>> >>>There *will* be a mate for _one side or the other_ I predict. >>>At any rate (despite the position being illegal) I think it is the most >>>interesting mate problem that I have seen in years. >>> >>>[snip] >> >>intuition tells white mates in less than 25 to me ; well , we will see , at >>least it is surprisingly less obvious than it is at first glance . >> >>I have set up a _bad_ huge crafty on it ; let's wait and see ... :-) > >My intuition tells it is a draw if you do not add a bishop at h1. > >Uri I tried both over-night on 2 4CPU-Crafties ; it scored both ( with and without B on h1 ) as 0.00 so at least there was no difference ; depth about 47 ply when I had to stop . It seems though it should be easy to check if you just play a few moves forward manually until the queen really is there but for now I am on easter holidays :-) pete
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