Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:50:03 09/09/01
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On September 09, 2001 at 04:16:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On September 08, 2001 at 23:54:22, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>Does it actually win a piece? I seem to recall Amir Ban investigating this >>position and posting that no piece can be won. I assume he did a fairly >>thorough job of playing through various variations, i.e. I don't think he just >>set his program on infinite time and let it run. >> >>I don't have a CCC archive set up, maybe somebody else can find his comments. >> >>I am not saying that a piece cannot be won, I'm just not sure what the truth is. >> It would be helpful if we had the PV from the DT2 search. > >Nobody (except DT) found the way to actually win a piece. That >doesn't mean there isn't any. Look at the position, no way you can win a full piece here against a pawn. Bob probably remembers the +2 score from a few moves later when Cray Blitz poorly blundered TACTICALLY. Let's not forget that the 'huge successes' from Hsu were simply piece grabbing actions, a kind of level we now hardly even see at blitz levels. Placing pieces at very bad squares and be amazed that with a 6 ply search you then lose material some moves later. >-- >GCP
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