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Subject: Re: Has anyone ever solved this position

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:08:59 04/06/01

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On April 05, 2001 at 23:52:19, Alex Szabo wrote:

>On April 04, 2001 at 23:15:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 04, 2001 at 20:26:17, Stephane Daniel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Position 230 of the well known "Win At Chess" test suite.
>>>
>>>2b5/1r6/2kBp1p1/p2pP1P1/2pP4/1pP3K1/1R3P2/8 b - - 0 1
>>>
>>>Right move is supposed to be Rb4
>>>
>>>
>>>My program just can't solve this one. Is there an error in this particular test?
>>>What do your programs find for this position? Mine keeps telling me to play Rh7
>>>with a score of -1.71
>>
>>
>>It is the right move.  But you have to evaluate passed pawns very highly to
>>get this one, as you really will not search it to a queen in any finite amount
>>of time, due to the checks.  I have seen older versions of crafty solve it.
>>Someone reported that if you do "eval ppscale 200" then it will get it pretty
>>quickly...
>
>Rb4 does NOT win for black; it's a draw.

Can you post the drawing line?

Uri



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