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Subject: Re: Arasan finds a new WAC bust

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 20:16:05 09/15/04

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> Qd1 is an inferior --

> after Qd1+ Kg2 Qg1+ Kf3 -- you are back to the starting position  and Qf1+ is
> clearly best...looks like a bug in Arasan

There is no penalty here for repeating the position once. If a mate score was
found things are different, since the score encodes the distance to mate. But
without that, Arasan doesn't know that a farther away gain of material is any
worse than a nearer gain.

--Jon

• Re: Arasan finds a new WAC bust Ricardo Gibert 04:30:26 09/16/04
  • Re: Arasan finds a new WAC bust Robert Hyatt 05:31:12 09/16/04
    • Re: Arasan finds a new WAC bust Jon Dart 06:49:40 09/16/04
      • Re: Arasan finds a new WAC bust Robert Hyatt 06:58:05 09/16/04
        • Re: Arasan finds a new WAC bust Andrew Platt 09:17:19 09/16/04
          • Re: Arasan finds a new WAC bust Robert Hyatt 15:15:49 09/16/04
          • Re: Arasan finds a new WAC bust José Antônio Fabiano Mendes 10:33:47 09/16/04

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