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Subject: Re: What's wrong with the magnet? [WAC.100 again]

Author: Thomas Mayer

Date: 08:05:54 11/07/01

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Hi Slate,

On November 07, 2001 at 10:07:44, Slater Wold wrote:

>On November 06, 2001 at 23:30:46, K. Burcham wrote:
>
>>
>>the mistake here was working a twelve hour shift and setting up a test position
>>when tired. i was puzzled with dan's post reply and of course with slate's also.
>>but thanks to thomas mayer, i checked the c5 move and reset the position
>>assuming i left the c5 pawn at home.  as you can see with this position, i
>>duplicated the analysis with the mate in 13. of course it is showing mate in 1
>>second because of position learning.  well any way the rush was fun, sorry to
>>dan, sorry to slate, and thanks to thomas for pointing out my stupid mistake. i
>>will triple check my test positions in the future.  also it is funny the c5 is
>>not there this time, a different line to mate.
>>
>>
>> [D] 8/k1b5/P4p2/1P3p1p/K1P2P1P/8/3B4/8 w - -
>It's fine.  I was just aggravated on how in the world you were getting this
>result, and I wasn't.
>
>Chessbase engines stop this, because they show the line they are looking at.  If
>I had paid a little more attention, I could've seen it too.  Oh well.

Well and I had luck because I know that position quite well (one of my
beta-testers put it VERY often under my nose as long as Quark can solve it) -
and Quark has still some troubles with it... due to sume luck it wants to play
initially Be3 but without any idea how it can with this - it takes still more
then a minute to discover it, Quark does love the connected passers so much that
it does not like to give them away as long as it is quite sure that it gets
something other - there is definitely more knowledge needed for endgames like
that... as others do I must change somewhere in future to special routines for
several engines, as long most things are not specialized much wrong estimations
are done often - and I think to program endgames is little bit easier for me
then to get better middlegame play - there are more clear rules for endgames
then for any other phase of the game, I think.

Greets, Thomas



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