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Subject: Re: Interesting end game problem for Rebel-Tiger against GM

Author: Shep

Date: 04:27:38 02/11/00

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On February 11, 2000 at 03:37:11, Terry Presgrove wrote:

>Last night I was watching RT play a GM in 3 2 blitz matchs. RT's score shot up
>to +6 and I thought the game was over. Not quite.....I picked move 67 because
>it was the first of many oportunities RT had for the win. This is no problem
>for Crafty (TB-mate 18) or I'm sure other programs with Tablebases but for RT it
>became a nightmare. My question is how many programs without TB's can find the
>win? I left RT on for over 5 minutes and could not find it. But when I forced
>the move it saw the win (but not mate) emediately.
>
>8/8/8/6p1/5kp1/6R1/5PK1/3q4 b - - 0 67 bm Qf3

Crafty 16.3 (G3-266) takes 1:50 to play Qf3 (no tablebases) with a +8 score.

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Shep



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