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Subject: Re: easy position for PC's, tough for Palms and non master humans

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:52:04 01/01/03

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On December 28, 2002 at 23:42:15, Mike Byrne wrote:

>[d]1NBk4/p2p4/8/3K4/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
>
>The trick of course is how do you save the Bishop and the Knight.  Which seems
>impossible at first glance.
>
>Have you ever heard of the "Troitzky mate" before.  You have now.
>
>This position was from the Chessbase puzzle page.
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/puzzle/puzzle11/index.htm
>
>Michael Byrne


It's strange how this is so difficult for Palm programs (e.g., Chess Tiger 15 on
my 66 MHz Palm took about 2:40 to see that White gets an advantage with 1.Bb7;
it took a couple more minutes to see that White is winning).

I am not the strongest player, but I solved it within a few seconds, and it
looks to me like the solution isn't that deep (yet Tiger did not see it until
ply 16).



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