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Subject: Re: Nice trick

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:53:17 05/02/00

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On May 02, 2000 at 01:49:50, Aaron Tay wrote:

>>>>>>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;

>>>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..


It is certainly not only avoiding Bxh7, also Rxh7. ;-)
And refering to Mr. Dworetski "Modern Chess tactics" in which he presents this
position, see the EPD line: Dworetski says good moves are Ke5 or Kg3.




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