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Subject: Re: Interesting position from the Winboard Forum:

Author: blass uri

Date: 21:46:18 04/20/00

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On April 20, 2000 at 14:26:07, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On April 20, 2000 at 12:59:09, pete wrote:
>[snip]
>>I tried both over-night on 2 4CPU-Crafties ; it scored both ( with and without B
>>on h1 ) as 0.00 so at least there was no difference ; depth about 47 ply when I
>>had to stop .
>>
>>It seems though it should be easy to check if you just play  a few moves forward
>>manually until the queen really is there but for now I am on easter holidays :-)
>
>Since 47 plies is well past promotion time, or "uncorking the genie" on the
>other side of the fence, we can conclude (fairly safely I think) that it is a
>draw and not a checkmate.

I think that with a bishop at h1 it is a win for white because my calculation
shows that black cannot take g2 in this case.

Uri



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