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Subject: Re: Test position

Author: Mikael Bäckman

Date: 02:30:27 01/24/04

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On January 23, 2004 at 16:36:24, Yar wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Can your engine find mate in 11 here ?
>
>[D]3QK1bk/1p3p2/2p2N2/4p3/B1P1p2p/qP3p2/5r1r/b7 w KQkq - 0 1
>
>
>PS
>Position from old issue of russian chess magazine '64'
>
>Good luck,
>
>Yar


This position crashed my engine for the first time in a long while. After some
debugging I noticed the FEN is wrong. Castling is not possible in this position.

Chepla finds only a draw.

  -5.43     174k   0.4 Ng4! Qxb3 Bxb3 h3 Nxf2 Bd4 Nxe4 Rb2 Ng5 9/17
   0.00    1289k   2.6 Ng4 Qc1 Qf6+ Kh7 Qf5+ Kg7 Qf6+ Kh7 10/24
   0.00    1565k   3.1 Ng4 Qc1 Qf6+ Kh7 Qf5+ Kg7 Qf6+ Kh7 11/25
   0.00    2199k   4.2 Ng4 Qc1 Qf6+ Kh7 Qf5+ Kg7 Qf6+ Kh7 12/25
   0.00    4029k   7.4 Ng4 Qc1 Qf6+ Kh7 Qf5+ Kg7 Qf6+ Kh7 13/27
   0.00    9846k  16.6 Ng4 Qc1 Qf6+ Kh7 Qf5+ Kg7 Qf6+ Kh7 14/29
   0.00   49791k  86.1 Ng4 Qc1 Qf6+ Kh7 Qf5+ Kg7 Qf6+ Kh7 15/32


/Mikael





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