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Subject: Re: Testposition - Endgame

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 04:02:36 03/16/03

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On March 15, 2003 at 12:33:38, Eduard Nemeth wrote:

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>[D]q7/8/5p1p/k1pBpPpP/1p1pP1P1/1P1P4/1KP5/8 b - - 0 1
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>What moves your Program?
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>Only win is 1...Qxd5!
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>After 1...Qe8 with Idea  Qxh5! white can play 1...Kc1!

I thought this would be the easiest one (wrong as usual) because of the
'forcing' key.

Yace Paderborn no solution after 20 minutes;

Crafty 19.03 ditto.

The difficulty turns out to be that it is about 32 ply before a promotion!

Alastair



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