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Subject: Re: Junior 7 endgame blunder !

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:06:05 01/22/02

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On January 22, 2002 at 16:56:55, James T. Walker wrote:

>>>>>>[D]B7/5pk1/6p1/7p/7P/8/4K3/8 b - - 0 1

>I was looking at it from my "idiots" point of view.  If I was
>playing this position I would immediately play to eliminate the last white pawn

And there are so many easy ways to do that, starting with ...g5 followed by
...Kg6.  Also trivial are moving the king to h6 or f6 followed by moving the
pawn to g5.  I cannot see how a program that's rated 700+ points above me can
have trouble with such a posiiton.

Is it possible to incorporate some simple "goal seeking" behavior into a program
for cases where there is an obvious-to-a-human win or draw?  (In this case it
would be to eliminate White's last remaining pawn.)



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