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Subject: Re: One mate to solve for fittest programs.

Author: Paul

Date: 12:23:48 05/04/01

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On May 04, 2001 at 15:14:19, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 04, 2001 at 14:55:43, Paul wrote:
>
>>On May 04, 2001 at 14:32:34, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On May 04, 2001 at 10:26:02, leonid wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello!
>>>>
>>>>Had bad lack this midnight when one call came from my work. It took me 20
>>>>minutes to do it but I went to my bed only at 2 o'clock. One good result from
>>>>broken sleep was this position that you can try to solve. It probably will
>>>>demand one sleepless night from your program, if you will insist on shortest
>>>>mate.
>>>>
>>>>[D]RnqkqnR1/qBNbNBq1/QqQqQqQ1/BrQqQrB1/3q4/8/3Q4/3K4 w- -
>>>>
>>>>Please indicate your result.
>>>
>>>How many pawns did we start with to arrive at this position?
>>>;-)
>>
>>16? I know I'm going to regret this, but I don't see anyhing wrong at first
>>glance? Not even at the second one ... :)
>>
>>Paul (who grabs a box of tissues to be ready to wipe the egg of his face)
>
>Well, I'm not sure what I thought was wrong before.  I did the arithmetic and
>the piece counts add up as conceivable.  Something still looks wrong to me, but
>I can't put my finger on it.

Gravity is missing ;)

>However, I think it is me who needs the hand-towel.
>;-)

:)

Paul



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