Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 13:29:48 02/19/02
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On February 19, 2002 at 10:56:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Test your hypothesis. Others already have and after a _week_ of searching >they found exactly _nothing_. 60 plies is too deep for something that is not >narrow and forced. And even for something forced, 60 plies is very tough to >touch except for what are often called "straightjacket" positions where both >sides have one legal move for an extended period of time. > >You aren't going to find _this_ draw in 24 hours from the original position >where they moved their king to the wrong square. I don't care what kind of >hardware you have. Is it really 60 ply? The analysis on the Rebel site claims 36 plies. Just for the hell of it, I'm letting ChessTiger 14.0 run for a few days or so on my XP 1800 on this position. It's at ply 20 right now. You know what's really interesting? It's having a branching factor of LESS than 2 here. -- GCP
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