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Subject: Re: Easy draw

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:17:10 01/03/02

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On January 03, 2002 at 09:14:01, Benny Antonsson wrote:

>On January 02, 2002 at 23:11:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 02, 2002 at 16:38:39, Benny Antonsson wrote:
>>
>>>I read the "rule" that Uri Blass stated and Christophe Theron uses in his
>>>program (Diskussion from oct 2001). Is this something you use in Crafty ?
>>
>>
>>Not particularly.  I've had B+wrong rook pawn since the 1970's...  I simply
>>let the search handle the special cases and only care that the defending side
>>can reach the queening square before the pawn or the enemy king can assist
>>it...
>But then you must take the bishop in consideration because in this position:
>[D] 8/4k3/8/7P/4B3/5K2/8/8 w - - 0 1
>The black king reaches the queening square before the pawn or the enemy king,
>but black is still loosing. Is this what you call a special case ?


As I said, I let the search help _some_.  In this case, it takes no time to
see that the king can't get to h8 in time:

         (3)    7     0.10   0.00   1. Kg4 Kf7 2. h6 Kg8 3. Kh5 Kh8 4.
                                    Ba8
                7     0.11     ++   1. h6!!
         (2)    7     0.12   4.77   1. h6 Kf7 2. Bh7 Ke6 3. Kg4 Kf6 4.
                                    Kh5
         (3)    7->   0.15   4.77   1. h6 Kf7 2. Bh7 Ke6 3. Kg4 Kf6 4.
                                    Kh5
                8     0.16     ++   1. h6!!
         (3)    8->   0.23   5.16   1. h6 Kf7 2. Bh7 Ke6 3. Kg4 Kf6 4.
                                    Kh5
                9     0.23     ++   1. h6!!
         (2)    9     0.29   6.02   1. h6 Kf6 2. Kg4 Kf7 3. Bh7 Kf6 4.
                                    Bd3 Kf7 5. Kg5
                9->   0.38   6.02   1. h6 Kf6 2. Kg4 Kf7 3. Bh7 Kf6 4.
                                    Bd3 Kf7 5. Kg5
               10     0.52     --   1. h6
               10     0.67   5.47   1. h6 Kf6 2. Kf4 Kf7 3. Bh7 Kf6 4.
                                    Kg4 Kf7 5. Kg5 Kf8



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