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Subject: Re: cct2 position

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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