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Subject: Re: unsolveable in the 90's - how about now?

Author: Ross Boyd

Date: 15:53:14 08/28/05

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On August 28, 2005 at 13:05:36, Mike Byrne wrote:

>CCC arhives indicated no pc program was able to solve this in the late 90's.  In
>2002, Ruffian was reported to solve fairly quickly.
>

[d]1r4r1/3q1npk/2b1pbnp/Rp1p4/1N1P3P/2PQ1pP1/1K3B2/5B1R w - - 0 1

TRACE 1.35 on a P3-600Mhz 64Mb hash:
   3	00:00.101	       8.041	160.820	-3.22	h5 Kh8 Qxg6
   4	00:00.111	      11.629	166.128	-3.28	h5 Kh8 hxg6 Ng5
   5	00:00.201	      29.488	163.822	-3.06	h5 Ng5 Qxg6+ Kh8 Na6 Rbc8 Nc5
   6	00:00.471	      76.769	170.597	-3.25	h5 Ng5 hxg6+ Kh8 Qe3 Qc7 Nxc6 Qxc6
   7	00:01.812	     150.372	190.344	-3.10	h5 Ng5 hxg6+ Kh8 Qe3 Rgc8 Qf4 Ra8 Rxa8
   8	00:03.505	     670.281	192.057	-3.34	h5 Ng5 hxg6+ Kh8 Be3 Rgf8 Bf4 Rb6 Nxc6
   9	00:06.089	   1.222.955	192.591	-3.01	h5 Ng5 hxg6+ Kh8 Be3 Rgf8 Bf4 Rb6 Qe3
Qc8 Qf2
  10	00:14.611	   2.988.610	200.982	-3.13	h5 Ng5 hxg6+ Kh8 Be3 Rgf8 Bf4 Rb6 Qe3
Qc8 Qf2 Kg8
  11	00:54.729	  10.239.343	186.441	-2.66	h5 Ng5 hxg6+ Kh8 Be3 Rgf8 Bf4 Rbc8 Qe3
Kg8 Qf2
  12	02:03.917	  23.318.154	189.578	-2.74	h5 Kh8 hxg6
  12	02:32.709	  29.060.708	191.188	-2.73	Qxg6+
  12	02:57.105	  33.571.306	189.668	-0.73	Qxg6+
  12	04:00.166	  44.866.475	186.943	+M15	Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3
Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1 Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1
  13	05:54.989	  61.848.865	174.714	+M15	Qxg6+ Kxg6 Bd3+ Kh5 g4+ Kxg4 Rg1+ Kh3
Bf1+ Kh2 Bg3+ Kxg1 Ra1 Ra8 Rb1 Ra1 Kxa1 Ra8+ Kb2 Ra1




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