what about this one ?

white to move and win
1q2r1k1/2p1bpp1/8/1r6/8/1B6/1B6/1K2Q2R w - - 0 1

taken from http://chess.marpla.net

Stockfish solves it in about half a second.

info depth 15 seldepth 31 score mate 4 nodes 434227 nps 893471 time 486 multipv 1 pv e1e6 b5b3 h1h8 g8h8 e6h6 h8g8 h6g7

Saw this at rybkaforum.net

r1b1k2r/pp1p1ppp/2n1p3/qN2P3/5P2/2bBB3/P1P2KPP/R2Q3R b kq -

Decided to let Stockfish take a long look, using MultiPV=3:

info depth 48 seldepth 71 score cp 0 nodes 1283832057191 nps 16873327 time 76086477 multipv 1 pv c3b4 a2a3 b4e7 h1e1 e8g8 f2g1 a7a6 b5d6 e7d6 e5d6 ...

Here is a pretty one:
r1b1kb1r/1pq2p1p/p1n2P2/4pP2/2B5/2pQB3/PPP2P1P/2KR3R w kq - acd 37; acs 2202; bm Rhg1; cce 199; ce 179; pm Rhe1 {12} bxc3 {10} Kb1 {9} Rhg1 {7} Bb3 {3} Qe4 {3} f4 {3} Bd5 {1} Qxc3 {1}; pv Rhg1 h6 bxc3 Rb8 Rg7 Ba3+ Kb1 Rf8 Bxh6 Qd7 Qxd7+ Bxd7 Rh7 Nd8 Bxf8 Bxf8 Re1 Bxf5 Rxe5 ...

That's a potentially interesting typo in the title.

Don is gone.

http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 28&t=50114

If anyone wants to propose a concise amendment which doesn't permit too much interpretation and potential for abuse by unenlightened gorillas, such as the ones moderating this forum, I'm open to suggestions.

Jeremy

I don't suppose this suffices:

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a ...

Jeremy Bernstein wrote:After his last outburst, Anthony R. Brown has been permanently banned from OpenChess.

Jeremy

Thank you!

To be honest, I was "this close" to abandoning this site for good, having had my fill of A.R.B over at TalkChess.

The more forcing line HIARCS appeared to miss is:

38. Rf1 Bf5 39. g4 Bg6 40. Nxg7 Ra2+ 41. Kg1 Kxg7 42. Bf6+ Kf8 43. f5 Bh7 44. g5 Ra1 45. Rxa1 Bxa1 46. Qh5 Qc7 47. Qxh6+ Ke8 48. Qxh7

Can anyone confirm if Komodo 6 sees it in a reasonable length of time?

Thanks.

Komodo 6 does not. Here's what ...

Thanks for all the posts guys. Very interesting. It appears that Nxg7 is not easy to spot.

My dev version of Stockfish running on a i7-3970X @ 3.5GHz took about 10 minutes to see this line.


Looks like a search of at least 35 plies is necessary.

No. Here's the latest Stockfish finding the line ...

A System this Profound! needs to be shared! For those who cannot use YouTube, I offer the following excerpt:

Excerpted from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1fVAALg7tc

Anthony.R.Brown 27/07/2013 (Great Britain) [email address removed]

How to play the System...

(1) The Main idea of the System ...