Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:19:49 06/09/01
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On June 09, 2001 at 05:18:45, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 Apparently I have made more changes in 18.10 than I realized. At depth=15, my score is way below zero... But the main thing is to avoid Rd6 which simply loses...
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