Author: Albert Silver
Date: 10:30:37 12/15/99
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On December 15, 1999 at 13:08:20, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>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 )
>
>I tried for about half a minute most of the programs I have and they all take
>the rook. They are incredibly stupid, but they think the same of us for not
>seeing instantly that this position is a mate in 74.
You're right. Most humans would have looked at it and thought offhand it was a
mate in 87, but that was just offhand.... ;-)
Albert Silver
>
>8/8/8/8/2R1k3/2K5/1P6/3r4 b - - 0 1
>
>Enrique
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