Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 18:43:21 01/03/01
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On January 03, 2001 at 21:41:26, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On January 03, 2001 at 19:51:25, Michael Fuhrmann wrote: > >>[D] 8/5p2/8/4P1p1/4bk2/8/8/4BK2 b - - 0 63 >> >>This position was reached in a comp-comp blitz game on my computer between >>crafty 17.14 and little goliath. I was surprised that crafty (black) did not >>play Kxe5, which wins, and instead played g4, which eventually draws. >> >>Later I let crafty analyse the position, and it doesn't really seem to settle on >>Kxe5 until ply 16 or thereabouts (about 2 1/2 minutes on my computer). > 1...Kxe5 2.Bd2 [almost] any 3.Kf2 followed by 4.Kg3 is an easy draw. Maybe Crafty has it >hand coded into its eval that the type of KBPPKB ending that results after Kxe5 >is a dead draw. Regardless, it's no big deal whether it takes or not in this >position. A draw is a draw.
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