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Subject: Re: WAC - all cooks?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:29:41 09/14/01

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On September 14, 2001 at 13:26:29, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 14, 2001 at 07:20:05, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I read lots of messages about cooked WAC positions. I think the version which I
>>have is rather outdated. Where can I find an EPD version of WAC which contains
>>all known cooks?
>
>This one should be pretty up to date:
>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/EPD/wacnew.epd

I believe that if you try to find cooks you can find many cooks if you define a
cook as another winning move.

Here are examples from the EPD

[D]r4q1k/p2bR1rp/2p2Q1N/5p2/5p2/2P5/PP3PPP/R5K1 w - - bm Rf7; id "WAC.008

Rf7 is the fastest way to win but Nf7+ is probably also winning.

Another example(more convincing)
[D]r2rb1k1/pp1q1p1p/2n1p1p1/2bp4/5P2/PP1BPR1Q/1BPN2PP/R5K1 w - - bm Qxh7+; id
"WAC.014";

Qxh7+ is mate in 4 but Ne4 is another way to win the game inspite of the fact
that there is no forced mate in the near future.


Uri



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