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Subject: Re: Should top programmes solve this problem?

Author: Mark Young

Date: 17:06:47 01/03/00

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On January 02, 2000 at 22:41:19, allan johnson wrote:

> With all the talk on how strong programmes are today I
>decided to put a few of my programmes to the test.The one
>I have submitted comes from The Big Book Of Combinations
>edited by Eric Shiller.So far I have tested only Rebel Century
>which fails to find the best move(recommended by Shiller)in
>10 minutes.My machine is a Celeron 433 64 mb ram.Is this
>position too complicated for computers to solve? I'd
>appreciate feed back on responses from Fritz6 and Hiarcs7
>and the like.
>Thanks Allan
>r4k1r/1p3pp1/2b1p1np/p3P3/3PN1q1/4Q1P1/5P1P/R1R2BK1  white
>to move
>Rxc6! pxc6
>Be2

Fritz 6 solved this and agree that the sac is good....but it took Fritz almost 3
hours and 16 ply of search.



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