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Subject: Re: an endgame test position

Author: Dana Turnmire

Date: 16:44:19 08/28/04

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On August 28, 2004 at 19:39:37, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>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.

Although after 5 minutes the score is only +4.15



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