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

Author: John Lowe

Date: 09:32:55 12/24/02

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On December 23, 2002 at 15:37:07, Martin Giepmans wrote:

>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

Hi Martin,

You can borrow my failure if you like.

How did you manage to calculate 29 nodes before you found a mate in one?



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