Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 22:49:50 05/01/00
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On May 01, 2000 at 00:47:35, Andrew Dados wrote: >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... It does? I was wondering what's the point of h6 as well but I assumed that Crafty knew better...But I thought the idea was for the chess program to avoid Bxh7..And Crafty does that..
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