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Subject: Re: Problem from Old CCR magazine only fritz seems to solve.

Author: John Warfield

Date: 02:26:50 01/18/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 05:07:24, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On January 18, 2000 at 04:52:53, John Warfield wrote:
>
>>2r2rk1/p3bb1p/2n1Q1p1/q2pP3/3P1P2/p1NB1NR1/1P4P1/1K1R4 w - - id Evans.L -
>>Pilnick,C; bm d3g6;
>>
>>
>>  In the last printed computer chess reports magazine this position was used as
>>a computer bench mark. Various programs were listed along with how fast they
>>solved the above problem.  I no longer have the article, but if memory serves
>>Cray blitz solved this in 1 second.  Fritz4 was the fastest to solve it out of
>>the Pc programs I think on a pent 133 it solved it in 2 min which was by far the
>>fastest out of the pc program. On my K6-350 fritz5.32 solves it in 32sec!!
>
>Does it actually come out with a positive score?


no it doesn't it comes out with a -103 for white, still bxg6 is the best move or
else white is utterly lost



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