Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:50:11 06/03/02
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On June 02, 2002 at 23:46:45, Joseph Merolle wrote: >On June 02, 2002 at 22:32:25, Dana Turnmire wrote: > >>-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- >>-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- >>-- -- -- -- -- -- BK -- >>-- -- BP -- BP -- -- -- >>-- -- WP -- WP -- WK -- >>-- -- -- WN -- -- -- -- >>-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- >>BB -- -- -- -- -- -- -- >> >>Here is the test position found in "The Mammouth Book of Chess." >> >>1Nxc5? >> >>This obvious, materialistic move throws away the win. White's c-pawn cannot be >>advanced to the queening square without the help of the king, but this allows >>Black to counter by attacking the e-pawn. White should not take the c-pawn, but >>instead make progress on the kingside by manoeuvring his knight. > >> >>I tested Chess Genius 3 and after almost 8 hours it still did not avoid the >>losing move. Can any of the modern programs avoid the losing move? If not >>would endgame tablebases help? > > > >Hi, > >My programs Fritz 7008 , Shreddder 6.02 , tiger 14 , gambit tiger on a 300 mhz >256 ram all reject night takes c5 in about a sec flat. Hmm, on other peoples' (faster) computers they don't reject that move.
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