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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