Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 09:45:12 04/22/00
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On April 22, 2000 at 12:09:40, blass uri wrote: >On April 22, 2000 at 11:39:51, Laurence Chen wrote: > >>On April 22, 2000 at 11:26:16, Laurence Chen wrote: >> >>>On April 22, 2000 at 10:51:27, Pierre Bourget wrote: >>> >>>>Is it true in this position that Hiarcs play Qf7+ ?? because of the tablebase ? >>>>Isn't it a little ridiculous.Look here for Tim Krabbe opinion: >>>> >>>>http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary.htm >>>> >>>>[D]5k2/2Q5/8/8/5p2/5P2/5P2/K7 w - - 0 1 >>>What's your point then? I do this type of move against a human player, there >>>reason why I do such thing is that the human player is too stubborn to resign, >>>hence, he is asking for humiliation, and wants to take a long beating. So why >>>not!!!! I find playing against this type of position against a human player who >>>does not want to resign in a totally hopeless position, then he deserves to be >>>torture to a slow death. I approve Hiarcs move, it still mates the opponent in >>>25 moves. A mate is a mate no matter how many moves. A win is a win. >>>Laurence >>I think you are both wrong and too hash to judge that Hiarcs 7.32 cannot play >>chess. What if this was the 50th move for White? How many of you would not play >>the move 50. Qf7+, any other move would lead to the 50th move draw. > > >No > >50.Qxf4+ is also winning and 50.Qf7+ can be a drawn by the 50 move rule if there >were 99 moves without a capture and without another move when 50.Qxf4+ is always >winning. > >Uri Black must make its 50th move, and it involves a capture. So my question, when does the 50th move begins? Let's say that white makes a capture in move XX, and there are no captures after that, would not the 50th move end with Black? Laurence
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