Author: Pete Galati
Date: 19:01:43 02/25/01
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On February 25, 2001 at 21:02:09, Christophe Theron wrote: >On February 25, 2001 at 13:46:32, Sune Larsson wrote: > >> >> [D]8/5p1k/r5pp/P7/3R3P/6P1/5PK1/8 w - - 0 1 >> >> >> 1927 Alekhine won the 34th game in the battle vs Capablanca to become >> World Champion. He did it by playing 1.Ra4! in the above position. >> Black's rook has to block the pawn and white has at his disposal an >> endless reserve of rook moves along the a-file. Again, the future for >> black spells "Zugzwang". The general rule is that a passed pawn should >> be supported by a rook from the rear. That's why ideas of 1.Rd5? are >> wrong. This is a knowledge that have to be implemented in many chessprograms. >> I have seen numerous examples of trying to support such a pawn sideways. >> >> What would your favourite program play? >> >> Sune > > > >My first reaction has been to laugh loud at this one, because I thought I had >introduced this knowledge in Chess Tiger already. > >Then I tried, and I must admit that Tiger wants to play Rd5 all the time (I >stopped after one minute, really angry). > >Grr... > >Now I remember, the knowledge I have introduced is about the position of the >black rook in the above diagram. It's something else. > > > Christophe But it'll be in the next version now? Pete
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