Author: John Merlino
Date: 17:48:02 03/09/01
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On March 09, 2001 at 20:18:31, Sune Larsson wrote: > > [D]8/1p6/5Pp1/7p/7k/3p4/7K/8 w - - 0 1 > > Moravec, 1961 > > Hm... a pawn ending 1 vs 4 pawns. But both players will get a queen. > Hm... maybe there is some chance of getting a perpetual here. > Hm... hope is the last to abandon man. > > "Sorry to interrupt your thoughts here, but it's > actually white to move and *win*." > > What!!! > > Hm... I think I stick to backgammon... > > > Test: No joke - white moves for the win. I think your programs > will make it. Take a look at the evals - they will alter > quite a bit... The path to the fulfilment further down. > > > Sune > > > > > > > > > > >Moravec,J >1961 > >1.f7 d2 2.f8Q d1Q 3.Qf4+ Qg4 4.Qe3 b6 5.Qe7+ Qg5 6.Qe4+ Qg4 7.Qe3 b5 8.Qe7+ Qg5 >9.Qe4+ Qg4 10.Qe3 b4 11.Qe7+ Qg5 12.Qxb4+ Qg4 13.Qe7+ Qg5 14.Qe4+ Qg4 15.Qe3 1->0 It takes CM8000 quite some time, but it does finally find it. Wonderful position!: Time Depth Score Positions Moves 0:00 1/4 -3.22 640 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qxb7 0:00 1/3 -3.78 225 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qb4+ Qg4 4. Qxb7 Qg3+ 5. Kh1 0:00 1/4 -3.22 640 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qxb7 0:00 1/5 0.00 1822 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:00 1/6 0.00 14088 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:00 1/7 0.00 29838 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:00 1/8 0.00 54005 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:01 2/9 0.00 97111 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:02 3/10 0.00 170377 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:03 4/11 0.00 298717 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:06 5/12 0.00 670185 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:10 6/13 0.00 1214840 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:18 7/14 0.00 2262885 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:30 8/15 0.00 3875952 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 0:49 9/16 0.00 6340593 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 1:28 10/17 0.00 11204556 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 2:32 11/18 0.00 18894552 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qe7+ Kg4 4. Qe4+ Kg5 5. Qe5+ Kg4 6. Qe4+ 16:12 12/19 8.83 119207051 1. f7 d2 2. f8=Q d1=Q 3. Qf4+ Qg4 4. Qe3 b6 5. Qe7+ Qg5 6. Qe4+ Qg4 7. Qe3 b5 8. Qe7+ Qg5 9. Qe4+ Qg4 10. Qe3 b4 11. Qe7+ Qg5 12. Qxb4+ Qg4 13. Qe7+ Qg5 14. Qe4+ Qg4 15. Qe3 Qh3+ 16. Qxh3+ jm
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