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Subject: Re: Nice trick

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 21:47:35 04/30/00

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On April 30, 2000 at 23:26:58, Aaron Tay wrote:

>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..

Er... h6 gives away win in much more obvious way then Bxh7 imo...



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