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

Author: Peter Rosendahl

Date: 12:20:41 01/03/02

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On January 03, 2002 at 14:45:20, Roy Eassa wrote:

>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.

Thank you for the quick reply. After half an hour of analysis with Fritz 6
the score for Rg4 drop a little to 3.59, but it seems both moves are wins.

>
>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).

The position is very interesting to analyze (and my question wasn't meant as
a critique). Thanks for sharing!



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