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Subject: Re: Intelligent software, please

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 17:58:06 11/25/01

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On November 25, 2001 at 17:05:54, Mike S. wrote:

>On November 25, 2001 at 15:14:16, Victor Fernandez wrote:
>
>>(...)
>
>>Yes, an example: an ending with few pieces .
>>
>>Kotov-Botvinnik
>>[D]8/8/4b1p1/2Bp3p/5P1P/1pK1Pk2/8/8 b - - 0 1
>>The correct move is ...g5 !!! Few programs play this.
>
>You're right. This position was used as #18 in the BS-2830 computer test suite.
>I don't have detailed results available at the moment, but Shep lists #18 as
>unsolved on his site:

Unsolvable?

My latest one needs only 18 seconds.

Ed

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00:00:04 13.00  0.73   1..Kg3 2.Be7 Bf7 3.Kb2 Be6 4.Kc3
                       Bf7 5.Kb2 Be6  (3)

00:00:10 14.00  0.73   1..Kg3 2.Be7 Bf7 3.Kb2 Kf3 4.Bc5
                       Kg4 5.Be7 Kf5 6.Bc5 Be6 7.Bd4 Kg4
                       8.Bf6 Kf5 9.Bd4 Kg4 10.Bf6 Kf5  (7)

00:00:18 14.15  0.73   1..g5
00:00:18 14.15  0.79   1..g5 2.fxg5 Kg3 3.Kxb3 Kxh4 4.Kc3
                       Kxg5 5.Kd4 Kf5 6.Be7 Bf7 7.Bd6 h4
                       8.Be5  (18)

00:00:28 15.00  0.82   1..g5 2.fxg5 Kg3 3.Kxb3 Kxh4 4.Kc3
                       Kxg5 5.Kd4 Kf5 6.Be7 Bg8 7.Bd8 Bf7
                       8.Be7 Bg8 9.Bd8 Bf7 10.Be7  (18)

00:01:06 16.00  0.89   1..g5 2.fxg5 Kg3 3.Kxb3 Kxh4 4.Kc3
                       Kg3 5.Kd4 h4 6.Bd6  (35)




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