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Subject: Re: YACP (Yet Another Chess Problem)

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 06:18:27 10/16/03

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On October 16, 2003 at 09:08:15, Lyn Harper wrote:

>  Why should it be moderately difficult?

Simply because the combination is not really that deep.

>Well, Chessmaster9000 could'nt solve it, just kept wanting to take the knight on
>e5 after glancing at the correct
>move for a nanosecond. Same with Ruffian. Good thing I did'nt offer $1 million
>to the first solver. :)
>  And you come up with some obscure chess program, that I've never heard of,
> and get the solution.

It's not so obscure to me, as it happens to be my own program.  :-)

I would guess that most strong programs finds the right move rather quickly,
but that CM9K and Ruffian have one of their few blind spots in this particular
position.

Tord



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