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Subject: Re: Dedicated Test Move

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 15:07:59 05/14/05

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On May 14, 2005 at 16:22:14, Rob Basham wrote:

I can't help saying how I just LOVE these things, for a human. I wish many more
human problems were like this. This is in fact imho amongst the easiest of
modern chess positions as given for human solving, but is considered too easy
for many authors to include in their books.
They prefer things which are much more misty and muddy and makes a person think
he has better alternative solutions, often. A thing like this is very simple and
still beautiful. OK, so it CAN be slightly harder too.
Regarding dedicated, I can see the problem when it comes to the older dedicated
computers. Anything below the level of Lang's first "genius" program, for a 386
computer, this might still be an issue. That, or stronger, I don't think it
should take longer than a couple of seconds.
S.Taylor

>[D]8/pp3p2/5p2/5p1P/1P1bk3/P5B1/2K5/8 w - - 0 1
>
>White plays ....Bf4 and wins...
>
>Excellence......2:20
>
>Mondial............55 sec.
>
>Mach 3......29 sec.
>
>Novag Scorpio......3.2 sec.



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