Author: Mark Young
Date: 14:44:44 09/18/98
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On September 18, 1998 at 12:35:09, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On September 18, 1998 at 04:21:10, blass uri wrote: > >>No it does not find the right moves but I do not think that my 16 bit version is >>the last version. >>I told amir ban about a bug in the evaluation of king ,wrong bishop and more >>than one pawn against a king(it does not know that 2 pawns are not better than >>1) and I do not know if he fixed it. >>I think also that Junior5 cannot find it because it does not understand the idea >>when there are rooks but I am not sure about it. >> >>I am not sure if it is a draw even after gxh3 but the right move is 47.g3 and >>Junior cannot find it >>Junior could not find 46...h3 and prefered a3 > >I think that if it is not a draw after gxh3, there would have to be a study-like >conclusion. > >If the pawns are stripped off it is a draw, since RB vs R is drawn in the >typical case. If the rooks are traded, it is a draw because of the "impotent >pair". If the B is sacrificed for the two pawns somehow it is a draw because >the two pawns up R+P ending would be easily drawn. > >The only way it can be won is if white can advance an h-pawn, with or without >winning the g-pawn (one h-pawn can be traded for it if necessary), without >trading any pieces, and without allowing counterplay via the a-pawn. > >Seems like an extremely tall order to me. > >This is a typical Crafty endgame zap. It has been doing this for years. > >bruce I don't now how typical it is for crafty to do this at blitz time controls, but typical or not it was a cool zap. And I don't know of any other program that would play h3. I liked it. (Crafty was running on a P II 233, Frizt 5 was running on a P II 400)
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