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Subject: Re: Can someone with 5men TB can try this position please ?

Author: ujecrh

Date: 13:48:23 06/30/00

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On June 30, 2000 at 16:40:32, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 30, 2000 at 16:04:53, ujecrh wrote:
>
>>
>>I do not think this position has anything special but I was just curious. It was
>>from a game I played yesterday between Yace0.18 and Crafty17.11. Yace had a >+4
>>eval but could not do anything else than reaching a 50 moves draw. What would
>>happen with TB ?
>>
>>[D]8/8/8/p7/4k3/1P6/1KR5/3q4 w - - 0 1
>>
>>(btw that was fast blitz, just to see what people were talking about yace
>>stength at fast time controls).
>
>Looks like a draw to me.  BTW, I count 6 pieces, not 5.  So unless the
>evaluation of the position decides to take one of them [which looks
>problematic], 5 pieces won't help.

5 men because I did not think that 6men TB with R and Q were yet solved.

>
>My guess is white moves Rc4+ and then it's around and around the mulberry
>bush...

Yes, that is exactly what happened in the game.



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