Author: blass uri
Date: 07:31:32 06/05/00
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On June 05, 2000 at 09:09:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 05, 2000 at 08:22:44, Steffen Jakob wrote: > >>Hi! >> >>This is a position from an interesting standard game MissSilicon - Hossa, played >>today at ICC: >> >>[D]5k2/7K/6P1/1p3p2/1P5P/1Pb5/8/8 w > > > >I think there are times where you have to depend on your search. Normally >this is won by black, because black has a bishop to stop white's pawns. I >suspect that if you try to write special-purpose code to catch this, it will >end up being wrong more than it is right. I agree that writing a special code to catch this case and many other cases is not trivial but I believe that it is not impossible. This is a precise tempo-counting >issue that just barely lets the 'loser' win. > >I'd likely just take the loss and run. It takes Crafty 9 plies (0 seconds >of course) to see that the bishop is not winning. I don't see an obvious >evaluation trick to make this show up faster... Hiarcs7.32 needs only 5 plies to see that white is winning because of extensions. Uri
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