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Subject: Second Endgame Position, Can your Favorite Program Find This?

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 02:12:52 08/15/99


Taken from WCCR, Endgame positions by Howard Exner. The first position was -
position #16. This position i'am about to give you is #28.

He states that you get the following points if it does the following:

 3 points = finds answer in 3 min or less
 2   "    =   "     "    "  3 to 5 min
 1   "    =   "     "    "  5 "  7  "

Here is the FEN Position: 8/8/6p1/6K1/R2k3P/8/p7/r7  b...kc5

Rebel 10 found this in 6 min and 31 sec.

My Hiarcs7.32 came up with 1...kd5 and this was from the 4-man tablebases but
the correct answer is 1...kc5 according to Howard Exner or is it?
 Hiarcs reached the tablebases and had hits of 15,914 and reached depth 15/30
but its answer says 1...kd5 and not kc5! What does your your program find?

I'am using a AMD K6-2/266Mhz with 64 Ram and 44Mb of Hash Tables

Regards,Terry



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