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Subject: Re: Nunn's K & P suite

Author: Michael Neish

Date: 08:37:53 02/04/00

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On February 04, 2000 at 02:57:37, Amir Ban wrote:

>You only need to look at the solution to no. 1, which may be the simplest one,
>and look at the weird king walk to h4 and back, to see why this is very
>difficult. All of these positions have subtle and elaborate solutions. I can't
>even imagine how a GM tackles such problems, let alone solve them.

Also, I think it's a matter of more than just seeing the first move.  I say this
because in Position 6 HIARCS 7 latches on to Kh2 instantly and doesn't waver,
yet after making the move (and finding the right defence, f6, for Black), it
doesn't see that 2. Kh1 is the correct move, and prefers to g1, f3 and h3 --
everywhere except h1!  That's after about ten minutes' thought on my slow
laptop.  Kasparov found it blindfold, if you believe Nunn's article.

Has anyone done any better with his program?

Cheers,

Mike.




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