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Subject: Re: Test Position

Author: Mihaly Szalai

Date: 12:54:38 06/08/05

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On June 08, 2005 at 15:14:50, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On June 08, 2005 at 14:39:59, Terry Giles wrote:
>
>>
>>Easy for a modern chess program - but what would you play?
>
>Are you sure, this is easy for a chess program. I believe not, and most engines
>will not solve this or solve it by luck giving unrealistic scores. Patzer is an
>exception. Roland Pfister has explained, how to solve it (you can find it with
>the CCC search engine). His idea works very well, but I fear, in general it will
>make a chess engine slightly weaker. Roland called the code to solve this
>"Behting study code". All of this is IIRC.
>
>The position is also part of Peter McKenzie's endgame test suite.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

Let me add that this position is part of an endgame study by Chekhover.
I posted it here almost 2 years ago.

http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=306076

Best
Mihaly



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