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Subject: Re: Recapture Extension [Anyone actually compute the answer?]

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 23:54:48 03/28/00

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Hi

On March 28, 2000 at 17:40:49, Dann Corbit wrote:

[snip]

>>>[D]3qkbr1/1b1n1p1p/4pp2/rB6/P2p1B2/5N2/1P3PPP/R2Q1RK1 b - -
>Interesting question (to me anyway) -- Why doesn't anyone's program find the
>best move?  Is it positional?  Is it zugzwang?  What is the real reason the
>best move is never found by any of the programs that examine the position?

And what I also wonder: Who are "we" that "we" claim that the best move is
this and that? According to my definition, the best move (in a won position)
is the move which mates the fastest. So.. where's the mate? Or proof me that
all the other moves mate slower. :)

Kind regards,
 -sargon



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