Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 15:51:38 11/07/00
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On November 07, 2000 at 14:53:20, Will Singleton wrote: >On November 07, 2000 at 11:16:06, kurt wrote: > (snipped) >>>The reason why Rfc1 is quite logical. >>>1.Computer sees Pawn loss on a2. >>>2.Can not find a defencive move for it. >>>3.Accepts loss and searches for continuation after the loss of pawn. >>>4.Finds Queen trap after Qa2 Rba1.Qb2 Rfb1 would force a draw. >>>5.Evaluation of other line comparision gives Rfc1! >>>regards,Kurt Widmann > >[ kurt, I don't understand how you can post an original message with quotes. >How do you do that, and why? ] > >You are right. My thinking was that Rfc1 would, in most cases (read, Amateur >programs with about 40 seconds to move) cause black to take the a2 pawn with the >Queen, thus allowing white to force the perpetual. > >As it turns out, crafty and rebel both like Rfc1 because it saves the a2 pawn >with a better resulting position than you get from Qe2. But my original just >concerned the idea of finding the rep draw. > >I guess it would be interesting to see how many programs (non-commercial) would >avoid Qxa2 after Rfc1. > >Will Thanks to > Kurt :) and to you for the explanation about the position. Why you don't think interesting that commercial programs analyze the position? Paulo
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