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Subject: Re: Test Move..

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 17:31:05 05/28/04

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On May 28, 2004 at 11:57:00, Will Singleton wrote:

>On May 28, 2004 at 09:30:26, Rob Basham wrote:
>
>>[D]rnbr2k1/ppp2ppp/6n1/8/2BN2q1/B1P5/P4PPP/R2QR1K1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>White plays  Bxf7+...and goes on to win!
>>
>>My old Novag takes about 6 minutes to find it...
>
>This is way too hard for the Novag, must be a faulty eval or something.  After
>Bxf7+ Kxf7 Qb3+ Kf6 h3 Qd7 you get the following position, which is hard enough
>by itself.  bm Re3, then after Nf4 or Ne5, Rae1.  I don't think any program
>could find Bxf7 from the original position with the correct line, though some
>will play it speculatively.

And as I suspected, CSTal will play Bxf7 instantly.  Shredder 8 likes it after
12:56 (18/50 plies) on XP2400.

>
>[d]rnbr4/pppq2pp/5kn1/8/3N4/BQP4P/P4PP1/R3R1K1 w - -



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