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Subject: Re: Shredder and missing knowledge for bad-Bishop endgames......

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 06:45:25 08/05/05

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On August 05, 2005 at 06:01:09, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On August 04, 2005 at 19:27:28, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 04, 2005 at 19:23:28, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On August 04, 2005 at 18:24:58, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>>>
>>>>One of Shredder weak points is some wrong-color-Bishop endgames.
>>>
>>>It is not a weakness of shredder but weakness of most chess programs in case
>>>that it is a draw and white cannot force black to play b5 later and win by axb5
>>>
>>>It is not obvious for me that it is impossible without analysis so it is not
>>>obvious for me that it is a draw.
>
> Well it's an obvious draw, since white will have Pawns only at a-file and his
>Bishop will have a different color from the only promoting square(a8) and
>black's King has the control of a8-b8 area and it's inside a-Pawn's
>promoting-square........... So an easy draw........Is it so difficult to program
>this........?
>
>>>
>>>I tried the second best program in the world(Fruit2.1)
>
>He,he. Fruit is not the second best......Hydra, Fritz 8, Shredder 8, Junior 9
>are above it.......

Why Fritz?

My fritz8 could not see the draw within an hour.
Regards
Bernhard



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