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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