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Subject: Re: End game puzzle

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 08:18:13 11/16/00

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On November 16, 2000 at 05:38:30, allan johnson wrote:

>On November 16, 2000 at 05:34:46, allan johnson wrote:
>>sorry thats a white pawn on h3
> Imust be on drugs or something Sorry
>  [D]1R6/2pk4/1P6/8/3r4/K7/P7/8 w - -

This position Tiger finds immediately (both Tiger13 and Gambit, since the
endgame play for these two is identical - as it should be). Tiger has some smart
passed pawn code for these kinds of positions.

Century 3 misses this one as it does not extend enough. After a few forced moves
when the black rook is captured it extends to see an immediate win. Why not
extend more when the rooks are still on? An overall performance hit?

Table base programs should find this in a snap but again we see an example of a
non table base program (Tiger) finding it (I'm sure they'll be others). In a
previous post for the Ne4 position it was Century's turn to shine while Tiger
faltered.



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