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Subject: Re: Mate in 1 - but Fritz 6 needs 1 hour!!!

Author: leonid

Date: 10:53:30 08/12/00

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On August 12, 2000 at 13:24:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 12, 2000 at 11:45:21, leonid wrote:
>
>>On August 12, 2000 at 02:45:06, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On August 12, 2000 at 00:57:46, Angrim wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 11, 2000 at 20:30:53, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>But your position is an easy one. Try this one with your favorite chess programs
>>>>>and tell me what happens:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>[D]8/PPPPPpPk/3rq3/1b1r2b1/2BR1B2/3RQ3/pppppPpK/8 w
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I confess that mine gets nuts on this one.
>>
>>I very liked position and just added to it some few more pieces for even more
>>complexities. Now it contain mate that I don't even know exactly in how many
>>moves. Please say exact number if you can. White goes and mate.
>>
>>Must add to this position: two black bishops on c6 and f6.
>>                       and two white bishops on c3 and f3.
>
>Impossible with chessbase.
>The interface of Hiarcs7.32 does not let me to put 7 pawns and 4 bishops of the
>same side.
>
>7 pawns and 4 bishops mean that 2 of the 4 bishops were pawns in th history.
>It means that white had 9 pawns in the history of the game and it means illegal
>position.
>
>I guess that this is the reason that the chessbase interface does not let me to
>put the position on the board.
>
>I think that Genius3 is better because it lets me to put more illegal positions.
>I did not check this position but I remember that I could play king and 15
>queens against king and 15 queens with Genius3.
>
>Unfortunately Genius3 does not let me to put more than 16 pieces for one side so
>I could not analyze more comlicated positions with it.
>
>Uri

Interesting! Genius is all the time the best program for mate solution. You did
good choice by trying to solve just on it. Genius is very permissive, stable and
exact. This position look more like exception.

Do your Genius 3 have some problem with graphics? My Genius 2 had.

Second very stable and permissive program is Chessmaster.

At least 50% of all chess programs I expect to hang on the position like this.

Tried it on not mate solver, 8 plys brute force search. Move came the same as
for the mate. White pawn promoted to queen from g7 to g8.

Leonid.



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