Author: F. Huber
Date: 14:15:21 04/16/05
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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? "awesome"? My old Celeron/400? LOL! Well, I´ve tried it now (#22) with almost the same parameters as for the original #13, but had no luck yet. :-( This seems to be a lot harder, and maybe the restriction K=1 (i.e. black king can´t move at all) won´t hold any longer for _this_ position. Of course I´ll try it again (with less restrictive parameters), but that might take rather long time - don´t expect too much from my ´awesome´ machine ... ;-) Regards, Franz.
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