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Subject: Re: Did Fritz miss a win in game 13(6 piece tablebases needed)?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:43:02 04/29/01

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On April 29, 2001 at 05:42:26, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On April 28, 2001 at 17:19:57, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>What do say the 6 piece tablebases?
>>[D]8/4b2B/k7/6n1/8/8/4K1R1/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Can white win this position or is it a draw?
>>
>>Uri
>
>How do programmers handle this.  I guess from a practical point of view R+2P
>would be preferred to R+B, even though less valuable from the perspective of a
>simple material count.
>
>Frank


In my case, Crafty knows that with a KRP or KRPP vs KRB, that the KRB side
can _not_ win.  The KRP side probably can't either, but for KRPP there are
real winning chances for the KRPP side.  It handles this correctly.



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