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Subject: Re: Endgame-Testposition!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:09:40 12/03/03

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On December 03, 2003 at 15:48:36, Joachim Rang wrote:

>Hi,
>
>it was probably already posted several times but maybe not:
>
>[D]8/5R2/2p5/8/7P/1K2b3/P3kp2/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Best move is Kc2!
>
>All the commercials have problem finding this move (don't know about
>Chessmaster), best is Hiarcs 9 which needs only a few minutes (on Athlon 1,5
>GHz).
>
>Why is this so hard to solve?
>
>regards Joachim

Chessmaster 9000, SKR personality, on a P4-2.4, doesn't do too well here:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	-0.82	375		1.h5 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1
0:00	1/4	-0.86	791		1.h5 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.a4 Ke2
0:00	1/4	-0.84	1004		1.a4 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.a5 Ke2
0:00	1/5	-0.73	2862		1.a4 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.a5 Ke2 4.h5
0:00	1/6	-0.85	7127		1.a4 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.a5 Ke2
					4.Kc4
0:00	1/7	-0.68	14040		1.a4 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.a5 Ke2
					4.Kc4 Kf3 5.a6
0:00	1/8	-0.75	24120		1.a4 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.a5 Ke2
					4.Kc4 Kf3 5.a6 Ke4
0:00	2/9	-0.66	47904		1.a4 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.a5 Ke2
					4.h5 Kd3 5.a6 Ke4
0:00	3/10	-0.79	82170		1.a4 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.a5 Ke2
					4.Kc2 Kf3 5.Kd3 Ba7 6.h5
0:01	3/10	0.00	382203		1.h5 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.Kc4 Ke2
					4.h6 Bxh6 5.Kc5 Be3+ 6.Kxc6 Kf3
0:02	4/11	0.00	604327		1.h5 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.Kc4 Ke2
					4.h6 Bxh6 5.Kc5 Be3+ 6.Kxc6 Kf3
					7.a4
0:05	5/12	0.00	1172453		1.h5 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.Kc4 Ke2
					4.h6 Bxh6 5.Kc5 Be3+ 6.Kxc6 Kf3
					7.a4 Kf2
0:11	6/13	0.00	2511907		1.h5 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.Kc4 Ke2
					4.h6 Bxh6 5.Kc5 Be3+ 6.Kxc6 Kf3
					7.a4 Kf2 8.a5
0:25	7/14	0.00	6544224		1.h5 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.Kc4 Ke2
					4.h6 Bxh6 5.Kc5 Be3+ 6.Kxc6 Kf3
					7.a4 Kf2 8.a5 Ke2
0:58	8/15	0.00	15746543	1.h5 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.Kc4 Ke2
					4.h6 Bxh6 5.Kc5 Be3+ 6.Kxc6 Kf3
					7.a4 Kf2 8.a5 Ke2 9.Kb5
2:28	9/16	0.00	39075763	1.h5 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.Kc4 Ke2
					4.h6 Bxh6 5.Kc5 Be3+ 6.Kxc6 Kf3
					7.a4 Kf2 8.a5 Ke2 9.Kb5 Kf3
5:50	10/17	0.00	95988346	1.h5 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.Kc4 Ke2
					4.h6 Bxh6 5.Kc5 Be3+ 6.Kxc6 Kf3
					7.a4 Kf2 8.a5 Ke2 9.Kb5 Kf3 10.a6
15:48	10/17	0.51	249681346	1.Kc2 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.a4 Ke2
					4.a5 Kf3 5.Kd3 c5 6.h5 c4+ 7.Kxc4
					Ke4 8.a6 Kf5 9.Kd3 Ba7 10.h6
26:16	11/18	0.65	408089866	1.Kc2 f1=Q 2.Rxf1 Kxf1 3.a4 Ke2
					4.a5 Kf3 5.Kd3 c5 6.h5 c4+ 7.Kxc4
					Ke4 8.a6 Kf5 9.Kd3 Ba7 10.h6 Kg6

jm



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