Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 16:39:37 08/28/04
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On August 28, 2004 at 18:40:43, martin fierz wrote: >aloha! > >after all the cloning talk, here's something to test your favorite engine with: >i played a weakish IM today and got the following position after 56...Qg6+ >57.Kf2: > >[D] 8/6kp/8/3p4/1P4q1/P4p2/5K2/4Q3 b - - 0 57 > >it took me a couple of seconds to see that after 57...Qh4+ 58. Kf1 Qxe1+ 59. >Kxe1 Kf6 black is completely winning due to the floating square (it's nice to >see that reading dvoretzky is some good!) and so i played that and won :-) > >interestingly, when i entered this game in chessbase running fritz7 in the >background, fritz didn't seem to see this at all within a minute or so. so >question to all: how long does your favorite engine need to see the line ...Qh4+ >Kf1 Qxe1+ with a HUGE plus score (i.e. +9 or so - that is what my assessment of >the position was after a couple of seconds...)? > >i don't want to claim that this is the only win, but it is by far the easiest >one, and fritz 7 misses it completely. > >cheers > martin Amazingly Genius 7 finds that line in 50 seconds but Shredder 7 doesn't after 10 minutes.
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