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Subject: Re: Why is this position so difficult to the most programs?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 18:43:45 08/10/98

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On August 10, 1998 at 20:48:24, Jouni Uski wrote:

>wKh2,Ba5,Ra2,Pg2,h3/bKh4,Qc8,Pg6,h5
>white to move
>solution Rc2!!
>
>In my P90 Fritz5, Rebel9, Nimzo98 and CM5000 cannot find solution in 30
>minutes, but there's exception: Mchess 7 finds it in 8'20''. How about
>yours - I quess Chess Tiger solves this in one second...

It should be obvious why nobody finds it, it is completely freakish.  You have a
key move which involves sacrificing a rook to reach a position where a bishop
beats a queen several moves later.

Stronger chess programs aren't optimized to solve completely strange stuff.

This has got to be a study or something.  You can find the weirdest kinds of
things in studies, that is why they are studies, they are interesting, which may
as well mean weird.

bruce



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