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Subject: Re: Is Wild 5 a forced win for white?

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 21:02:51 10/11/00

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On October 11, 2000 at 22:15:23, Daniel Chancey wrote:

>NM DragonSlayr from chess.net claims that white has a forced win in the
>beginning of a wild 5 game.  Wild 5 is the original setup of pieces, but the
>pawns are 1 square away from queening and the pieces are in front of the pawns!
>
>I'm not sure if Computers can be accurate to disprove DragonSlayr's claim.  Is
>Wild 5 a win for white?
>
>Castle2000

This probably not true. I have spoke to different people about it but I never
saw an ever winning variant. I have about 47.000 positions of wild5 analyzed at
a CAP timecontrol. So If someone sends me a variant I can give improvements.

Michel



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