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Subject: Re: TWO new solutions to WAC.274

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 00:15:31 09/13/01

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On September 13, 2001 at 00:29:17, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 13, 2001 at 00:00:02, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>All you are doing is considering the root position solved, and allowing any move
>>that does anything, which is ridiculous.
>>
>>The key move trades down to an obviously won ending.  The other moves let you
>>stay up a piece, without clarifying anything.
>>
>>My program analyzes Rg5+ was +3, without taking any material off the board.  Rb6
>>is +4, according to it.
>>
>>This one seems semi-positional, but if Crafty is going to live by positional
>>solutions, it needs to die by them as well.
>
>I would be very interested to see what your program says upon analyzing this
>position overnight.
>
>I think it is a won ending (Rg5+) but I do have terrible intuition.  I also
>intend to study it carefully.

If the point of Rg5+ is to trade pawns, this doesn't seem like a very good
solution.  The solution where you've got a king, knight, and pawns, versus king
and some pawns, is pretty hard to beat.

bruce




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