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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