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Subject: Re: What is the principle continuation of this position

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 09:49:37 09/03/00

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On September 03, 2000 at 11:17:50, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>[D]3r2k1/p2r2p1/1p1B2Pp/4PQ1P/2b1p3/P3P3/7K/8 w - - bm e6;id "BT2450-27";
>
>Best move is "e6", but my program keeps picking "Qxe4".
>
>What makes e6 the correct move?  I only ran this positions to 12 plys.
>
>Larry.

Hi Larry,

My program finds this at depth 10 (13 seconds on my K6-300). By depth 13,
PostModernist has this line:

depth score  time    nodes
13=    221    214   8045987   1. e6 Rxd6 2. Qf7 Kh8 3. e7 Rd2 4. Kg3 b5 5. Kf4
a5 6. exd8=Q Rxd8 7. Qe7 Rc8 8. Kxe4


Andrew



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