Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 17:39:25 05/30/99
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On May 30, 1999 at 19:31:02, Anatoli wrote: >Hi ! >Yeasterday I got in an interesting situation when I wanted to show Fritz 5.32 in >action. One of my friends proposed a very easy task to solve. I said that Fritz >5.32 played at IG level and could solve most of the problems in seconds. But >then we gave Fritz 5.32 a well known task by P.Morphy, which we knew >since our childhood. >Here it is : >W. Kc8, Ra1, b6 >B. Ka8, Bb8, a7,b7 >Checkmate in 2. 1.Ra6 ba 2.b7X 1.Ra6.B--- 2.Rxa7X >Everybody knows this chess puzzle. I set up this position and smiled quite >loudly. Then I press the Watch button on the main tool bar and proposed >Fritz to Play. To my big confuse Fritz 5.32 gave 1.Kd7 !!!??? It didn't find >1.Ra6. Why ? I repeated this task many times but Fritz proposed only 1.Kd7. >Then I gave this position to all available engines and they solved it in 1 >sec.So, can anybody try this super difficult position on your computer ? Fritz >5.32 can checkmate now with a knight and a bishop. But will it be able to find >athis checkmate in 2 ? >Thanks >Anatoli Looks like a null-move issue. Dave
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