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Subject: Re: Troitzky beauty

Author: Joe Pechie

Date: 19:35:21 04/01/02

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On April 01, 2002 at 17:51:15, Ed Schröder wrote:

>[d]8/7N/1k2pp2/3P4/8/8/2r5/5K1R w - - 0 1
>
>Solution:
>
>1. dxe6 Rc1+ 2. Kf2 Rxh1 3. e7 Rh2+ 4. Kf3 Rh3+ 5. Kf4 Rh4+ 6. Kf5 Rh5+
>7. Kxf6 Rh6+ 8. Kf5 Rh5+ 9. Kf4 Rh4+ 10. Kf3 Rh3+ 11. Ke2 Rh2+ 12. Kd3
>Rh3+ 13. Kd4 Rh4+ 14. Kd5 Rh5+ 15. Kd6 Rh6+ 16. Nf6 Rxf6+ 17. Kd5 Rf5+
>18. Kd4 Rf4+ 19. Ke3 Rf1 20. Ke2 1-0
>
>1.dxe6 is easy, I assume every chess program will find it instantly.
>
>Difficult to find is 2.Kf2!!
>
>And that's the hard challenge for your favorite engine.
>
>Ed

Not to hard for Tiger 14
[+2.20]  d=12   2.Kf2 (0:00.00)
[+1.42]  d=13   2.Kf2 Rxh1 3.e7 Rh2 4.Kf3 Rh3 5.Kf4 Rh4 6.Kf5 Rh5 7.Kxf6 Rh6
8.Ke5 Rh5 9.Kd6 Rh2 10.Nf6 Re2 (0:00.00)
[+2.32]  d=14   2.Kf2 (0:00.01)
[+1.80]  d=15   2.Kf2 Rxh1 3.e7 Rh2 4.Kf3 Rh3 5.Kf4 Rh4 6.Kf5 Rh5 7.Kxf6 Rh6
8.Ke5 Rh5 9.Kd6 Rh2 10.Nf6 Re2 (0:00.02)
[+2.70]  d=16   2.Kf2 (0:00.02)
[+4.64]  d=16   2.Kf2 Rxh1 3.e7 Rh2 4.Kf3 Rh3 5.Kf4 Rh4 6.Kf5 Rh5 7.Kxf6 Rh6
8.Ke5 Rh2 9.Nf6 Rh8 10.Kd5 Ka5 (0:00.10)
[+4.64]  d=17   2.Kf2 Rxh1 3.e7 Rh2 (0:00.14)
[+4.08]  d=18   2.Kf2 Rxh1 3.e7 Rh2 4.Kf3 Rh3 5.Kf4 Rh4 6.Kf5 Rh5 7.Kxf6 Rh6
8.Ke5 Rh2 9.Nf6 Rh8 10.Kd6 Kb5 (0:00.21)


Joe



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