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Subject: Re: Who can see it?

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 08:54:59 10/06/03

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On October 06, 2003 at 07:43:52, Mike Hood wrote:

>On October 05, 2003 at 17:36:47, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>On October 05, 2003 at 06:38:06, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>
>>>On October 04, 2003 at 20:17:49, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>Who can see this position is lost?
>>>>
>>>>[D]8/6NK/8/1Bk5/P5q1/8/8/8 w - - 0 107
>>>
>>>Hiarcs 9 found a mate in 81 (probably from EGTB) after 6 min, no new line after
>>>50 min
>>>
>>>Barton 2800+, 512 MB hash
>>>
>>I re-run the analysis, longer : now mate in 31
>
><--snip-->
>
>I know it's the lazy way out... but this is a question for 6-man EGTBs. I'll
>save this position until Eugene has generated KBNP-KQ. In the meantime I'm
>trying to solve it by hand with computer assistance, ie making moves myself to
>shorten the search path.

Funny how these chess programs work sometimes... after 2 hours of thinking about
the original position, Shredder 7.04 evaluated the position with "only" -7.06
moving Kg8. Then I made the move, and Shredder immediately announced Mate in 38.



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