Author: James T. Walker
Date: 13:54:28 02/24/03
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On February 24, 2003 at 10:36:57, John Wentworth2 wrote: >Below is a chess problem from the 1986 fall/winter edition of Computer Chess >Reports. > >The dedicated units of the time(outlined below) were unable to solve it. I am >sure todays programs could find it quickly. > >Mephisto "S" >Avant-Garde >Expert 6.0 >Mephisto III >Forte >Quattro 4.0 >Turbostar 540+ >Par Excellence/Avant-Garde 2100 >Excellence 4.0 > >The article also mentioned they gave the problem to Garry Kasparov but it >doesn't say if he solved it. > >White to move, Mate in 10 > >8/8/4k3/2K1N1B1/5Pp1/8/2B2P1p/6n1 w > > >SOLUTION: > >1. Ba4 Kf5 2.Bd7+ Ke4 3.Be8 Kf5 4.Bg6+ Ke6 5.Bh5 Kf5 6.Bg4+ Ke4 7.Bd1 Kf5 8.Bc2+ >Ke6 9.f5+ Ke5 10.f4 mate I wonder how long they allowed the computers to solve the problem. I rember giving my "Great Game Machine" a "mate in 8" to solve. I'm not sure if it was the Morphy module or the Capablanca endgame module I had installed. But it took 17 days to solve the problem. I almost gave up but glad I didn't. Jim
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