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Subject: Re: Is there program, which evaluates this as draw?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:13:25 11/08/01

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On November 08, 2001 at 06:15:29, Hans van der Zijden wrote:

>On November 08, 2001 at 05:10:39, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>This position is from Ridderkerk tournament (Bringer - Crafty 0.5-0.5)
>>
>>[D]8/8/6kP/3K2P1/8/4B3/2b5/8 w - -
>>
>>Surprisingly white cannot win. Which program evaluates 0.00?
>>
>>Jouni
>
>There are 3 ways to see it's a draw.
>
>1. Tablebases - In that case many programs will see it.
>2. Calculating deep enough to see the 50 move rule will interfere - no program.
>3. Programs that understand enough about chess to know that this is a draw. But
>if there is such a program, it will probably be not very strong, because the
>extra chessknowledge will slow it down too much.
>
>Hans.

I disagree that the extra knowledge is going to slow it too much.
I do not think that the knowledge that is needed it too compliacated.

Uri



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