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Subject: Re: Show this position to your engine

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:35:51 08/22/03

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On August 22, 2003 at 12:09:36, Mihaly Szalai wrote:

>John,
>
>Chessmaster doesn't show the main variation:
>
>[D]8/3p1P2/3Pp3/2p1P2K/p1p3P1/PpP3p1/1P3pP1/6k1 w - - 0 1
>
>1. f8=R f1=Q 2. Rxf1+ Kxf1 3. g5 Kxg2 4. g6 Kh2 5. g7 g2 6. g8=Q g1=Q 7. Qxg1+
>Kxg1 8. Kg6 Kf2 9. Kf6 Ke2 10. Ke7 Kd2 11. Kxd7 Kc2 12. Kxe6 Kxb2 13. d7 Kxa3
>
>and at this juncture:
>
>[D]8/3P4/4K3/2p1P3/p1p5/kpP5/8/8 w - - 0 14
>
>white has to underpromote again in order to win...
>
>Mihaly

Fair enough.

However, I think that asking an engine to find an underpromotion 27 ply away
from the current position is a bit much. AND it looks like finding the
underpromotion from THIS position requires at least a dozen ply search. So,
you're asking the engine to search 40 plies from the initial position in order
for it to give a correct answer.

Can you tell me an engine that can do this? I looked at the other replies so far
and none of them have done it.

jm



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