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Subject: Re: Does this position blow up your program?

Author: Martin Giepmans

Date: 12:37:07 12/23/02

On December 23, 2002 at 15:16:44, Mike Byrne wrote:

>[d]R6R/3Q4/1Q4Q1/4Q3/2Q4Q/Q4Q2/pp1Q4/kBNN1KB1 w - - 0 1
>
>So far , every Palm program and Chess Tiger have fatal errors with this
>position.  Supossedly, this is the largest number of  possible legal number of
>moves, 218, available from one position in chess.  If you can prove this wrong,
>you'll go down in History.
>
>http://www.rescon.de/Compu/schachzahl2_e.html


"Qd2xb2 mate!" says my program. 29 nodes calculated to find this brilliancy.

It didn't blow up, the monitor didn't explode in my face, the AMD-processor
didn't implode, even my cigarette didn't catch fire ...

I must say that I find this at least a little bit disappointing ;)

Martin

Re: Does this position blow up your program? John Lowe 09:32:55 12/24/02
- Re: Does this position blow up your program? Martin Giepmans 15:11:51 12/24/02
  - Re: Does this position blow up your program? John Lowe 21:51:57 12/24/02
    - Re: Does this position blow up your program? Martin Giepmans 05:11:55 12/25/02
      - Re: Does this position blow up your program? John Lowe 05:33:00 12/25/02
        
        Re: Does this position blow up your program? Martin Giepmans 08:27:52 12/25/02
        
        Re: Does this position blow up your program? Martin Giepmans 08:55:24 12/25/02
        
        Re: Does this position blow up your program? John Lowe 09:31:17 12/25/02
        
        Re: Does this position blow up your program? Martin Giepmans 08:48:33 12/26/02
        
        Re: Does this position blow up your program? John Lowe 15:51:04 12/26/02
        
        Tryping error - read 300H John Lowe 20:13:29 12/26/02
Re: Does this position blow up your program? Jeroen van Dorp 12:39:31 12/23/02

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