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

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 02:31:10 08/15/99

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On August 15, 1999 at 05:12:52, Terry Ripple wrote:

>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

CM6K after 6 minutes likes kd5 then I turned it off. So do not know if it
changes.



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