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Subject: Re: Does any program get this?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 12:23:27 05/03/99

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On May 01, 1999 at 20:15:54, Francis Monkman wrote:

>During a game with Genius4 in 95, the following position arose
>after 17 moves by each side:
>
>White: Pa2,b2,c4,e5,f4,g2,h2 Ng3,g5 Bc1 Ra1,f1 Qe2 Kh1
>Black: Pa7,b7,c6,e6,f7,g7,h6 Na6,b6 (!) Bc5 Ra8,f8 Qe7 Kg8
>
>White was pleased to find the continuation:
>
>18 f5! hxg5
>19 f6 gxf6
>20 Ne4 Rfd8
>21 Nxf6+ Qxf6
>22 Rxf6 Nd7
>23 Bxg5 Nxf6
>24 Bxf6 Kf8
>25 Qh5 Ke8
>26 Rf1 resigns
>
>It would seem obvious that White is winning within a 9-ply search,
>so why doesn't any program find it? (You're of course welcome to
>see for yourself of it's 'legal', but I can't find any get-out for Black.)

Well, I tried one of my modified Crafties on it as you asked :), and it was not
found in a 14 ply search. (3 hours?)  It liked N5e4 with a score of about +0.5.
I will try again with my next version, because I think I may have messed up the
king safety scoring (again :).

Jeremiah



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