Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:28:27 04/16/05
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On April 16, 2005 at 17:15:21, F. Huber 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? > >"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. You're correct, it will no longer hold. To avoid stalemate, White will have to play g3+, allowing Kxh3 and Kxg4. Eventually, there will only be 5-6 men on the board, so tablebases might help. >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 ... ;-) I was referring to Mike's awesome machine, and your awesome program. :-) jm
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