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Subject: Re: Why did Karpov resigned in this position?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 02:24:39 04/23/05

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On April 22, 2005 at 22:42:08, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On April 22, 2005 at 16:21:20, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
>
>>Just to humour your argument , please take a loot at any of these position's.
>>
>>1nb1kbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQk - 0 1
>>1nbqkbn1/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQ - 0 1
>>1nb1kbn1/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQ - 0 1
>>2b1kb2/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQ - 0 1
>>
>>
>>I seriously doubt if any program will show a mate for these (the last position -
>>maybe it might find a mate).
>
>You'll never get a mate announcement there.  I'd like to see the program that
>will announce mate even in this position:
>
>[D]3qk3/8/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQ - 0 1

2 years ago Chessmaster found the mate on a 875Mhz celeron :
http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=302792



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