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Subject: Re: How Rebel plays at SSDF (not the opening is quilty)

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 10:35:47 06/18/98

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On June 18, 1998 at 06:28:48, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>On June 18, 1998 at 04:16:15, blass uri wrote:
>>On June 17, 1998 at 14:49:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>black to move
>>>
>>>position white  Kh3,Ra4,a2,f4,g3,h4
>>>             black  Kc4,Rc3,b4,e6,f5,g6
>>>             black to move wins easily
>>>
>>>Believe it or not, diep managed to lost this as it didn't play Ra3,
>>>it played Re3.
>>>This is so simple, but i haven't worked at endgame yet.
>>
>>Fritz5 is not better in this position it needed more than 80 seconds
>>to find Ra3 is winning
>>before that(after 1 minute on my pentium 200MMX) it prefered Re3
>>It intended to  play Ra3 without seeing it is winning after some
>>seconds but change its mind
>
>That's really surprising because it actually is so simple.
>
>"DarkThought" fails high on 1. Ra3! in iteration #9 after less
>than 1 sec.

I don't know what is going on here either.  Mine gets Ra3 in < 1 second on a
P6/200, with a score of +2, has +4 in 6 seconds, and has +7 in 38 seconds.

Is this because Fritz is doing null move in K+P endings or something?

bruce



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