Anti computer problems

Discussion about development of draughts in the time of computer and Internet.
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TAILLE
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Anti computer problems

Post by TAILLE » Sun Dec 21, 2008 19:51

Hi,

Just for fun a position which is a simplification of a famous problem from Henri Cordier.

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White to play and win

For a human the win is quite easy : white plays the 15 moves
50-44-49-43-48-42-47-41-36-47-42-48-43-49-44-50
while black plays only its king between 45 and 50. After that, black is forced to move a man, and white plays again and again its sequence in order to force all the black men to move.
After 15x17 = 255 moves we reach the following position

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Black to play

in which black is force to play its last move 46-41 37x46 B+

Isn't it a good example of the difficulty for computers to analyse like a human ?

Gérard

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