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Subject: Re: Crafty would trade too !?

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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