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Subject: Re: Can anyone or engine solve this problem?

Author: Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz

Date: 16:27:13 03/23/04

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On March 23, 2004 at 18:25:54, Anson T J wrote:

>A game begins with 1.e4 and ends in the fifth move with knight takes rook mate.
>Reconstruct the game.
>
>[d]rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq e3 0 1
>
>Note: This puzzle has apparently stumped many smart people, including Garry
>Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Botvinnik, and Ken Thompson (a la Unix and C).
>Major kudos if you solve it yourself!

Although this is a deep perft 11, the code of any engine can be modified to just
search for this condition:

...g8f6 2. f2f3 f6e4 3. d1e2 e4g3 4. e2e7 d8e7 5. e1f2 g3h1

Not a big problem.

Regards,

  Jaime



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