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Subject: Re: Easy for humans

Author: Colin Frayn

Date: 03:06:53 02/17/02

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On February 17, 2002 at 04:55:13, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>Here is another position which is easy to solve for humans. In a blitz game
>between Hossa and Arasan the following position was on the board:
>
>[D]8/8/4B2p/2K5/r5P1/p5k1/Rb6/8 b - - 7 116

Beowulf takes 10 seconds, which is slightly worrying.  I need to teach it about
opposite coloured bishops, I think ;)

Cheers,
Col

[1]B > comp
Current Position = 1.49
Number of Possible Moves = 26

  8    158      72     144007   Kf4 Bd7 Re4 Bc8 Re8 Bf5 Re5+ Kc4 h5 Bb1
  9    158     140     295563   Kf4 Bd7 Re4 Kb5 Kg5 Bc8 Re3 Kb4 Rh3
 10    159     307     661835   Kf4 Bd7 Re4 Kb5 Rd4 Bc8 Rd8 Be6 Rd6 Bc8 Rd8
&rep.
 11    160     855    1982153   Kf4 Bd7 Ra7 Kc6 Ra6+ Kd5 h5 gxh5 Ra5+ Ke6 Ke3
 11    188!   1002    2105767   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kc4 h5 Kd5 h4 Kd6 h3 Kc5

... etc...




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