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Subject: Re: Test position:Short-Timman [Tilburg;October 1991]

Author: Mike S.

Date: 15:30:35 10/16/00

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On October 16, 2000 at 18:17:01, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On October 16, 2000 at 17:59:20, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:
>
>>   Short-Timman [Tilburg;October,1991]
>>  [D]2r2rk1/1bpR1p2/1pq1pQp1/p3P2p/P1PR3P/5N2/2P2PPK/8 w
>>   Here Short played 32.Kg3!! [33.Kf4,34.Kg5,35.Kh6 and mate]
>>   Can the chess programs find this amazing plan?  JAFM
>
>Beautiful game! When I tried it a few years ago, no program saw the white king
>walking all the way towards the opponent's.

One of my favorite test positions. But I start the test one move later, where
the programs should find 33.Kf4. Nearly all programs will find Kf4 within
seconds I think; the most difficulties in my test had Rebel (9,10a) and M-Chess
7.1 which needed 4...6 Minutes on my PII/333.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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