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Subject: Test Position

Author: Dana Turnmire

Date: 14:33:52 06/02/02

I ran this position with Genius 3 on an AMD 1.8G 256RAM and after almost 8 hours
Genius still could not avoid the losing move.

In "The Mammouth Book of Chess" Graham Burgess gives this position as an example
of how computers are materialistic.  1 Nxc5? the obvious materialistic move
throws away the win.

Can any of the modern programs avoid the losing move?  Would endgame tablebases
help?
[D] 4N3/1K1P1p2/3p1p2/1k6/8/8 b - - 0 1

• Re: Test Position Åge Trulssen 15:26:55 06/03/02
  • Re: Test Position Roy Eassa 16:47:52 06/03/02
• Re: Test Position [trying diagram] pavel 14:39:30 06/02/02
  • Re: Test Position [trying diagram] pavel 14:40:09 06/02/02
    • Re: Test Position [trying diagram] Roy Eassa 12:23:19 06/03/02
      • Re: Test Position [trying diagram] pavel 12:26:10 06/03/02
    • Re: Test Position [trying diagram] Dana Turnmire 18:16:34 06/02/02
    • Re: Test Position [trying diagram] Gian-Carlo Pascutto 14:41:03 06/02/02
      • Re: Test Position [trying diagram] Roy Eassa 12:15:44 06/03/02
• Re: Test Position Dana Turnmire 14:34:32 06/02/02

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