Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 17:19:48 03/08/00
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On March 08, 2000 at 16:10:18, Côme wrote: >On March 08, 2000 at 15:41:45, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>Are you sure that 1. ... c5 is the best continuation? What about 1. ... Bf6 2. >>Be5 Kg7? >After 1. ... Bf6 ; Be5 and Kg7, white IMHO can play Bxf6+ and White position is >probably winning because he has a pawn up and the black king is misplaced. >Have you try this position on ferret ? No, that's its plan after thinking for 24 hours on this on a crusty old machine. The move might be bad, but just by looking at it with my eyeball it's an interesting alternative to 1. ... c5. You are right that white is a pawn up and is better, but the implication behind my program choosing this continuation is that it has figured out how to do the same or better against 1. ... c5. Its score is +1.35. I think this is an interesting problem, but very prone to misinterpretation. There are two aspects: 1) Finding the move in the first place, which involves discovering that the rook can't be taken, and preferring the resulting position. 2) Deciding that in the ensuing tactics, white has significant material advantage or a forced mate. You've gotten a lot of replies from people who have found programs that can get as far as the first aspect of this, and want to stop there, satisfied, but so far nobody has found a convincing crush. Are you sure that one exists? bruce
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