Author: Howard Exner
Date: 09:50:29 12/15/99
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On December 15, 1999 at 11:44:52, Torstein Hall wrote:
>Take the following position and setup on your PC:
>
>4b3/1r4k1/p3pr2/1p1pPp2/PPpP1Pp1/2P3Pp/K6P/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Every human would play 1.a5 without thinking, but your chessprogram plays
>1.exf6+??? It may be wrong to call a program stupid but.....
>
>Torstein
>
>( So far I have only tried it on Fritz 6 and Hiarcs 7.32 )
For a5 to be played quickly some kind of knowledge is required.
After a5 there are no captures available and a wall of pawns with no pawn breaks
or entry points. Looks like from another post that Zarkov's programmer has
implemented this kind of stuff.
Here's Rebel Century's contribution on a K2-233 (default,40 mb hash in dos)
00:00:06 12.00 -8.44 1.exf6+ Kxf6 2.a5 Ke7 3.Kb2 Kd6
4.Kc2 (3)
00:00:55 13.00 -9.81 1.exf6+ Kxf6 2.a5 e5 3.dxe5+ Ke7
4.Kb2 Rd7 5.Kc2 d4 6.cxd4 (11)
00:02:39 14.00 -11.45 1.exf6+ Kxf6 2.a5 e5 3.dxe5+ Kf7
4.Kb2 (56)
00:08:37 15.00 -15.62 1.exf6+ Kxf6 2.a5 e5 3.dxe5+ Kf7
4.Kb2 (162)
00:10:00 15.06 -12.43 1.a5 Rh6 2.Kb2 Bc6 3.Kc2 Ra7 4.Kd2
Kf7 5.Ke2 (596)
00:10:16 16.00 -12.51 1.a5 Rh6 2.Kb2 Bg6 3.Kc2 Kf7 4.Kd2
Ke7 5.Ke2 (600)
00:10:50 17.00 -12.54 1.a5 Rh6 2.Kb2 Bg6 3.Kc2 Kf7 4.Kd2
Ke7 5.Ke2 (621)
00:12:06 18.00 -12.57 1.a5 Rh6 2.Kb2 Bg6 3.Kc2 Kf7 4.Kd2
Ke7 5.Ke2 (652)
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