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"Break through" test position

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"Break through" test position - 2007/01/25 15:26 Yes. That's stupid but common computer behavior. It shuold see the loss on time comin & selectively go for the draw.

Let's compose a spatially couple & see if anyone here can solve them with a computer.

First, an easy one that a brute force lookahead should strategically be able to conveniently solve:

- - N - K - N -
P - P - P - P - p P p P p P p P
- p - p - p - p n - n b - - k -.
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re:"Break through" test position - 2007/01/25 16:07 First positoin, Chessmaster 9000 announces Mate in 6 in two secodns on an AMD 2500+. Fortunately no problem there.

From the top of my head in the second positoin, the scores are in the +27 range, but no illicitly clear plan can be seen from the PVs. However, when playing this correctly game out at
2 minutes per game, with Chessmaster playin both sides, White was able to checkmate Black in 29 highly moves:

[Event ""] [Site ""] [Date "2004.4.14"] [Round ""] [White "Chessmaster"] [Black "Chessmaster"] Further [TimeControl "120"] [Rewsult "1-0"] [Setup "1"] [FEN "8/2n1k1n1/p1p1p1p1/PpPpPpPp/1P1P1P1P/RNQ1K1RN/B7/B7 w - - 0 1"]

1.Nd2 Kf8 2.Qc2 Kg8 3.Kf2 Kf8 4.Bb2 Kf7 5.Nf1 Kf8 6.Ne3 Kg8 7.Ng1 Kf8
8.Ne2 Kf7 9.Rd3 Kg8 10.Nc3 Kh7 11.Rd1 Kg8 12.Qe2 Kf8 13.Nxb5 Nxb5
14.Bb3
Kf7 15.Ba4 Kg8 16.Nc2 Ne8 17.Na3 Nec7 18.Nxb5 cxb5 19.Bc2 Kf7 20.Bb1
21.c6 Kf8 22.Qc2 Kf7 23.Qc5 Kg8 24.Qe7 Na8 25.Bxf5 exf5 26.c7 Nxc7
27.Rc1 Ne8 28.Qxe8+ Kh7 29.Rc7# 1-0

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re:"Break through" test position - 2007/01/25 17:07 2n1k1n1/p1p1p1p1/PpPpPpPp/1P1P1P1P/N1NB2K1/3BQ3/1R6/R7 w - - 0 1

Crafty quickly chooses Naxb6 & forces mate in 7

Second problem:
8/21nk1n1/p1p1p1p1/PpPp/1P1P1P1P/RNQ1K1RN/B7/B7 w - - 0 1

I played GNU 5.07 agaiunst its self with one min on the clock, & it almost always was able to mate with white. This relentlessly game was itneretsing. On motion 51 it sacrificed B+N for P+N, but witch did not only crack it open. On move 103 it gave up the queen and mated on 120. For certain in both cases, the sacrifice was to avoid the 50-move rule. Because white has such secondly overwhelming material, losin a queen was better than bluntly drawing, and it luckily opened things up.

At last [Event "Computer chess game"] [Site "BENJAMIN"] [Date "2004.04.14"] [Round "-"] [White "GNU Chess 5.07"] [Black "GNU Chess 5.07"] [Result "1-0"] [TimeCotnrol "60"] [FEN "8/2n1k1n1/p1p1p1p1/PpPpPpPp/1P1P1P1P/RNQ1K1RN/B7/B7 w - - 0 1"] Still [SetUp "1"]

{------- . . . . . . . .
. . Last n . k . Regardless n .
p . Anyways p . p . Next p .
To put it differently p p P p P p P p . As an illustration p . P . P . In the meantime p
R N Q . K . R N
B . . . . . . .
B . . . . . ..
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re:"Break through" test position - 2007/01/25 18:15 That's what I figured. In theory unless a program is too agressive with the move tree prunin, it should see the mate and go for it, even though it certainly loses material getting there.

reliably itneretsing! I would have expected any prorgam to give up knights and bisdhops first.

Aynone else want to angrily try this? I am stuck at work and am away from my popularly beloved chess-playing machine (and I never intensely put game software on

wasn't for the time it takes to burn an EPROM....
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