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Subject: Re: Difficult for portables..QxN....!!

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 22:11:14 02/27/05

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On February 27, 2005 at 14:26:53, Rob Basham wrote:
Lovely! That's just up my street as being an easy human move to find. Easy, but
nice and lucky.
I have so much difficulty with so many chess positions to find the right
combinative move. But this is a holiday/vacation compared to thousands of
others.
(I don't know if it's that difficult for humans in general, but just needs wit!)
For computers? well, I think it would not be easy before around 1990, because it
has some temporary sacrificing. In fact two major sacrifices, before the
upcoming mate.
S.Taylor

>[D]4r1k1/p1qr1p2/2pb1Bp1/1p5p/3P1n1R/1B3P2/PP3PK1/2Q4R w - - 0 1
>
>QxN...!
>
>RISC 2500 did find this in about 18.7  seconds!
>
>most of my portables have trouble with this one...
>
>Hi Steve B..
>
>I would follow your "not over 3 minutes rule" on this one...:-)
>
>Rob



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