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Subject: Re: Nunn's K & P suite

Author: Frederic Friedel

Date: 14:53:09 02/03/00

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On February 03, 2000 at 17:08:37, Amir Ban wrote:

>
>There's an article by Nunn & Friedel in the latest ICCAJ called "Brains of the
>Earth" on a contest to solve 6 very hard king & pawn endings. The article says
>solving this suite in 24 hours was an exceptional achievement, and Kasparov made
>an amazing achievement of solving it in 45 minutes. It's also possible to
>understand from the article that Hiarcs could not solve the set.
>
>So I set up the EPD, intending to let Junior think about it all night, but I was
>surprised to find that Junior (no tablebases) can find all 6 key moves in less
>than 2 minutes each.
>
>I don't quite understand it.

Amir, check the full lines. For instance what does Junior play after 1.Kh2! f6!
in position six? And what is the evaluation?




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