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Subject: Re: How long to find White's winning move?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 11:45:20 01/03/02

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On January 03, 2002 at 14:33:00, Peter Rosendahl wrote:

>I have a question about this position: is it really clear that b4
>is the (only) best move? Motivated by my stupid engine,
>which couldn't find b4 but stayed with Rg5, I tried first Rg5 and
>after that b4 with Fritz 6 on the same position and got the
>scores +4.00 / +4.09 after about 10 minutes (Athlon 900MHz).


I think you're right, Rg5 is probably also a win.

I should have asked how long until a program selects b4 with a winning score,
but I didn't want to give the first move away to anybody eyeballing the position
(because b4 is such an odd-looking move and is very difficult for must humans to
find).



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