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Subject: Re: Weird position? You make the call!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:59:01 05/29/03

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On May 29, 2003 at 05:58:05, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 29, 2003 at 03:38:17, Tim Foden wrote:
>
>>On May 28, 2003 at 17:28:46, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>So, just for fun, I wondered what the situation would be if it were Black to
>>>move in this position.
>>>
>>>[D]4r1k1/qp1r1p2/2pb1Bp1/p6p/2PP1n1R/1P3P2/P4P2/2Q2K1R b
>>>
>>>And I discovered that, at least for The King, finding the relatively obvious (at
>>>least for a patzer like me) move Re6 is much more difficult than I thought it
>>>would be. Instead, The King plays with odd moves like Rde7(??), causing a big
>>>fail low that takes almost three minutes to finally resolve to Re6 on a P3-750.
>>
>>Looks like it is probably a good test position.
>>
>>GLC3.00 finds Re6 eventually, after 50 minutes at 14 ply!  My current
>>development version finds it after 27 minutes at 13 ply... whew!
>>
>>Cheers, Tim.
>
>Good relative to movei.
>
>Latest movei can see negative score for Re7 only after more than an hour at
>depth 15.
>
>I suspect that mate threat extensions that movei does not have can help.
>
>Uri

I forgot hardare(A1000)
I will not wait for it to find a better move.

Uri



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