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Subject: Crafty would trade too !?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:18:45 06/09/01

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On June 08, 2001 at 15:19:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Here is a cute position that occurred between a commercial program and Crafty
>last week:
>
>[D] 8/p4pp1/3rk2p/4p3/2P5/2K4P/P2R1PP1/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Crafty was black and moved the rook to d6, offering a trade.  The opponent
>took it and was happy to do so.  Unfortunately, white is lost.  White saw
>the passed pawn and apparently was quite happy.  Crafty's static evaluation
>for this position is -1.0 roughly.

depth=15 1/20 +0.00 1. Rxd6+ Kxd6 2. Kb4 Kc6 3. Ka5 f5 4. h4 Kc5 5. Ka6 Kxc4 6.
Kxa7 Kb4 7. Kb6 Ka3 8. Kc7 Kxa2

Am I missing something here?

After the trade I get:

depth=15 1/20 -0.15 2. Kb4 Kc6 3. c5 f5 4. h4 g5 5. h5 g4 6. a3 e4 7. Kc4 f4 8.
Kd4 g3 9. fxg3

Not very convincing...

--
GCP



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