Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:54:21 12/22/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 16:10:51, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 22, 1999 at 15:57:14, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>On December 22, 1999 at 14:10:56, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Have a look at this tremendous checkmate Chest found from the famous 1924 New >>>York Chess Club championship: >>>2r3k1/5ppp/7r/Q7/3P1p2/1N3Pnq/PP3K1P/R5R1 b - - acd 10; acn 535351375; acs >>>15279; bm Ne4+; ce 32750; dm 9; id "C.A.P. 812153"; pv Ne4+ fxe4 Qe3+ Kf1 Rxh2 >>>Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qe5+ f6 Qe7+ Kg6 Qxf6+ Kxf6 e5+ Kg6 e6 Qf2#; >>> >>>I will be amazed if any general purpose program (or even most GM's) can find it. >> >>Dan, prepare to be amazed... I copied and pasted the position into the two >>programs that accept epd's correctly right off -- Zarkov 4.30 and Genius 6.5. >>Zarkov came up with the right continuation immediately and saw that it was >>winning, but did not announce the mate in about two or three minutes. However, >>Genius 6.5 was just incredible -- it announced _mate in 10 in 16 seconds_, with >>me logged on, and with a couple of other apps running on my PII-400... So, be >>amazed :))) > >Both are pretty amazing results. But it is a mate in 9. Did any program find >the closer mate? That's is what mathematicians call "elegance". And sometimes not to be elegant is "losing". I remember a guy in my Math course in the university that was just badly qualified because he solved a problem -a tricky one- because he showed a somewhat long row of calculations, two or three expressions beyond the minimum. He said "¿How is this, teacher, the result is OK" and the teacher said " i do not care about results, I care about the better thinking..." The guy was me ...:-( fernando Fernando
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