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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