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Subject: Re: How many programs can see Fisher's Queen winning sacrifice !

Author: A.L.Mourik

Date: 12:31:45 04/14/03

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On April 13, 2003 at 17:21:26, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>Bobby's Queen sacrifice placed him among the greatest prodigies of all time. We
>can all say that if you owned a top program, that we too have a GM prodigy in
>our own home.
>
>[D]r3r1k1/pp3pbp/1qp3p1/2B5/2BP2b1/Q1n2N2/P4PPP/3R1K1R b - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Fritz 8:
>
>1...Be6 2.Qxc3 Qxc5 3.dxc5 Bxc3 4.Bxe6 Rxe6 5.h4 Rae8 6.h5 gxh5 7.Rb1 R8e7
>  µ  (-1.06)   Depth: 7/21   00:00:00  250kN
>  µ  (-1.16)   Depth: 12/29   00:00:14  15069kN
>
>(Pichard, MyTown 13.04.2003)

I remember me testing it in 1983 on my sinclair ZX spectrum with 32 Kb(!)
with my chessprogram psion-chess. It then took psion-chess on that hardware
(so to speek off) 13 hours (!) to solve this.
And now indeed 1 second for Fritz on a PII 400 Mhz



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