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Subject: Re: try this one....

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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