Author: Amir Ban
Date: 16:15:04 02/03/00
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On February 03, 2000 at 17:53:09, Frederic Friedel wrote: >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? Yes, you are right. It's not so easy. In no. 6 it finds 1.Kh2 f6 quicky but not 2.Kh1 and there's no winning score, at least not within 15 minutes. In regards to the others, I think no. 5 is a definite solution. In 1, 3 & 4 the lines are correct, but the score is not conclusive. I don't know about no. 2. This needs more work. Amir
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