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Subject: Re: WAC - all cooks?

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 13:25:00 09/14/01

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On September 14, 2001 at 14:33:42, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 14, 2001 at 14:29:41, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>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have is rather outdated.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.
>
>Those look pretty strange to me, but any move that leads to a certain win must
>be considered a "best move."

I think those moves should be considered as "good moves", but only one move is
the "best move" (except if there are different pathes with the same mate
distance).

Rafael B. Andrist



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