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Subject: Re: January 1987 CCNS (Number 12)

Author: Ray Rogers

Date: 14:53:27 04/16/05

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On April 16, 2005 at 17:41:46, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Ray,
>
>>[D]8/6pk/7p/2R2p1q/pp4nP/6P1/P3Q2P/7K w - - 0 1
>>
>>Eric attributes this to Graham White sometime in 1985.
>
>I remember this position.  As I recall Mephisto Amsterdam had problems (it
>wanted to play Qxg4 even after overnight analysis) and this was one of the
>positions that Richard Lang used to implement some passed pawn code into the
>Dallas program.
>
>Steve

Hello there. I had Mondial 68000XL a couple of years later and it needed about
80 seconds to avoid Qxg4. Good going at the time. I'm sure that RISC2500 and
Mephisto 1Mb take much longer.

Ray.



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