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Subject: Re: THE 16 PLY CHALLENGE!

Author: pavel

Date: 07:21:46 09/15/00

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On September 15, 2000 at 02:38:15, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On September 14, 2000 at 22:13:26, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On September 14, 2000 at 22:05:25, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>You were talking about the first positions of the game. Now you come up with a
>>>complex mating problem.
>>>
>>>I can find even more complex positions where no program can reach ply depth 10
>>>in a reasonnable time...
>>
>>More than half of the positions I posted in the list above are from early
>>positions in popular openings.
>>
>>Post the ickiest position you can find.  I love those sorts of things.
>
>
>
>OK. Here are two, but they have been posted here recently. Some chess programs
>go completely nuts when you give them these crazy positions:
>
>
>[D]8/PPPPPpPk/3rq3/1b1r2b1/2BR1B2/3RQ3/pppppPpK/8 w
>
>Here I don't know what is the best move.
>
>
>[D]8/8/pppppppK/NBBR1NRp/nbbrqnrP/PPPPPPPk/8/Q7 w - - 0 1
>
>Mate in one: Qh1#
>
>
>
>    Christophe


I dont think anyone of them are possible in real chess games......


Pavel



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