Author: Côme
Date: 22:25:07 03/08/00
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On March 08, 2000 at 20:19:48, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 Hello Bruce, I don't understand really what you say because of my bad english but Rxh5! is a winning move for humans. Best Regards Alexandre Côme
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