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Subject: Stalemate prevention: Simple endgame position finds after 13 half moves

Author: Jonathan Lee

Date: 09:44:56 07/26/00

Here's the position:
White pawns on a5, b2, and c4
White rook c7, White king d4
Black rook e2, Black king a6
White to move:
For the first 11 or 12 half moves, the computer moves pawn b2-b4, but that's a
stalemate.
This is an example of inefficiency (relatively speaking).
This position was given to me by Master Mark Ryan (not Mark Ryan on this CCC at
Vancouver, Canada).
Does anybody have a chess engine that can make this position run much faster
(disregarding hardware)?
Jonathan (49th message)

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