Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 16:18:38 01/12/02
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On January 12, 2002 at 17:13:05, Brian Katz wrote: >[D]8/5pk1/2p5/p1p5/P1PpKPPp/1P5P/8/8 b - - 0 1 >This is a position I from a skittles game that I had had as Black, with Black to >move. 1...f5!! is the winning move. After analysing this position after the >game, I wanted to see just how far away the Black King can be from the action >and still win. I placed the Black King on b6 and found that again, 1...f5 is the >winning move. The position is deceiving. I put this position is Fritz and it >finds 1...f5 pretty fast, but not instantly. >Deep Fritz and Fritz 6 seem to find it faster than Fritz 7a. > >I would like to know just how fast the Athlon 2000+ or the Pentium 4 2.2 gig >takes with Fritz 7, to find the winning move. > >[D]8/5p2/1kp5/p1p5/P1PpKPPp/1P5P/8/8 b - - 0 1 This second one is a particularly good puzzle for computers. Here's one line Fritz helped me come up with: 1...f5+ 2.gxf5 Kc7 3.f6 Kd7 4.f5 Ke8 5.Kf4 Kf7 6.Kf3 Kxf6 7.Ke4 d3 8.Kxd3 Kxf5 9.Ke3 Ke5! 10.Kf3 Kd4 11.Kg4 Kc3 12.Kxh4 Kxb3 13.Kg4 Kxc4 14.h4 Kb3 15.h5 c4 16.h6 c3 17.h7 c2 18.h8Q c1Q and Black wins the Q & P endgame.
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