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Subject: Re: A composition by Capablanca

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 03:12:03 01/26/02

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On January 26, 2002 at 01:25:35, Andrew Smith wrote:

>[D]8/7r/2p2pp1/2p3p1/k5p1/3KN1p1/8/1R6 w KQkq - 0 1
>
>An interesting position that Capablanca created. This is winning for white. The
>solution given is some 20 moves long. How long does it take your favourite
>program to see that white has a _huge_ advantage here? This position doesn't
>look so easy for programs IMO. I suggest very fast hardware only for this one.

Thanks for posting this! It just revealed a bug in my program, which is always a
nice on the day that a tournament (re)starts... :(

And I thought my program had no bugs...
HAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
Ha... I kill myself...

/David



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