Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 19:59:17 12/23/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 19:54:21, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 Yes, Fernando. Simplicity, brevity and elegance. The principles of good science. If only things could be set up that way in real life. That's partly the reason we seek for them in this crazy pastime we are all pursuing. Djordje
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