Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:58:51 04/16/05
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On April 16, 2005 at 16:32:41, Mike Byrne wrote: >On April 16, 2005 at 16:24:31, John Merlino wrote: > >>Just for fun, I made a few tiny adjustments to the position, and came up with >>this: >> >>[D]8/8/pp1p4/6p1/2ppK1Pk/3P3P/5PP1/8 w - - 0 1 >> >>After playing around with several lines, I'm guessing that this is a Mate for >>White in no less than 20 moves. The King can't find it easily unless I push all >>the way past White's 8th move, and then it says Mate in 14. >> >>White has to spend a lot more time in this position ensuring that he wins the >>pawn race AND avoids stalemate. >> >>What does your awesome machine say? How about ChestUCI, Franz? >> >>jm > >I will let it run -- but it saw fairly qucikly that white had winning advantage: Clearly. The problem is not to find the win for White, but to announce a Mate. jm
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