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

Author: Martin Giepmans

Date: 15:11:51 12/24/02

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On December 24, 2002 at 12:32:55, John Lowe wrote:

>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.

Thanks!  Do you really want it back?
>
>How did you manage to calculate 29 nodes before you found a mate in one?

I don't know if you grinned when you wrote that.
Do you mean that 29 is way too much for a mate in (only) one <grin>
or do you mean that 29 is not enough?

Martin




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