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Subject: Re: Easy for humans

Author: Colin Frayn

Date: 03:16:12 02/17/02

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On February 17, 2002 at 06:06:53, Colin Frayn wrote:

>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 ;)

Yep.  That helped ;)

Current Position = 0.75
Number of Possible Moves = 26

  2    111       0         27   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4
  3    111       1        299   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4
  4    107       1       1299   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kd5
  5    132       4       5336   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kd5 h5
  6    132       7      13177   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kd5 h5 Ke4
  7    149      14      28727   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kd5 h5 Ke4 h4
  8    125      28      66373   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kd5 Kf5 Kd6 Kg5 Kd5 h5
  9    134      62     157202   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kd5 Kf5 Kd6 h5 Ke7
 10    149     132     366598   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kc6 h5 Kd5 h4 Ke4 Kg5
 11    178!    295     862708   Rxg4 Kc6 h5 Bxg4 hxg4 Kd6 Kf4 Kc7 g3 Kd6
 11    189     413    1235316   Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kc6 h5 Kd7 h4 Kc7 h3 Ra1

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