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Subject: Re: 2 Testpositions from Leiden

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:50:16 10/21/02

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On October 21, 2002 at 17:36:06, John Merlino wrote:

>Fascinating. I'll be sure to ask Johan about it. Are you sure you are not off
>by one move? If, after Bxh6, Sjeng played Bf8, then my CM9000 needs only 21
>seconds to (coincidentally?) announce Mate in 13. So, my suspicion (which, of
>course, could be totally wrong) is that TheKing had already played Bxh6, and
>was pondering on Bf8, which Sjeng played. That WOULD result in an instant
>announcement of Mate in 13, with Qg4+.

You're making me doubt :)

The game log shows that after Qg4 Sjeng saw mate in the selective
search and thus announced 'Lost in at most 250' :)  I thought The
King saw it another move before us, which would have been Bxh6.

But I'm not sure...

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GCP



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