Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 17:12:54 06/09/00
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On June 09, 2000 at 19:33:08, Robin Smith wrote: >This game and position reminds me very much of one I just finished in the US >correspondence chess championship. In the following position: > >[D]8/4kpp1/1pQ4p/p7/P2q4/3P2P1/2P2P1P/6K1 b > >black played 34. ... Qd6? and lost after 35.Qxd6+ Kxd6 36.Kf1 b5 37.Ke2 bxa4 >38.Kd2 and white easily stops the a pawn and wins. After the game I was >surprised to find that even after very long "thinks" programs seem to >want to avoid playing 35.Qxd6, even though it is not at all hard (for a human)to >see that white can stop the a-pawns, and after that white's connected c & d >pawns are unstopable. The only exception I found was Fritz6a, which finds Qxd6 >fairly quickly. > >Maybe this position would make a good test position? > >Robin Smith I think the position is too hard to really test anything. I bet that programs want to play c4 right away as white in order to stop from "losing" the a-pawn. A good to test might be where white chooses to "lose" the pawn. bruce
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