Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 20:26:58 04/30/00
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On April 30, 2000 at 14:42:08, Pete Galati wrote: >On April 30, 2000 at 12:29:59, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On April 30, 2000 at 10:46:55, Harald Faber wrote: >> >>>This position is a nice test of endgame knowledge for programs: >>> >>>Which program(s) avoid 1.Bxh7?? g5+!! 2.hxg6+ Kg7 3.Rg8+ Kh6 and draw, white has >>>no chance to enter the black fortress. >>> >>>[D]7R/5kpp/8/7P/4BK2/8/8/3r4 w - - am Be4h7;bm Kf4e5 Kf4g3;id >>>Sax-Kovacevic,Sarajewo 1982; >> >>Everyone will fail this I expect. KRBP vs KR is usually significantly won, and >>I doubt anyone will think to check this trapped bishop case. >> >>Just gotta say it so someone will prove me wrong. >> >>bruce > >Amy seemed to want to take that pawn, so did the Dos Comet, unfortunatly with >Comet, I fell asleep and my computer's "energy saving" thing shut it down at 45 >minutes, but on my computer it really wasn't going to search deeper than 13 >(probably). I had the hashtable at 32mb, I had to bail out on the search >because I wanted my computer back. > >I didn't run it past Crafty, I figure someone with a newer computer will >without a doubt do that. > Actually Crafty does well in this test . It prefers h6 almost throughout..And this is done on a slow PII/266 and with no tablebases.. You guys can try it yourselves..
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