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Subject: Re: Only the best two programs can recognize this position as a DRAW !

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 00:30:24 02/14/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 23:18:52, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On February 13, 2002 at 23:17:24, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Guess which are the only two programs to initially recognize this position on
>>the very first minute of analyzis as a dead DRAW. Even if most humans at the
>>first glanze can recognize this position as a draw, so far only two programs so
>>far have recognized this simple position as a draw.
>>
>>[D] 8/2r3k1/5q2/2PP4/PK6/1PB5/8/8 b - - 0 1

Did you use tablebase files?  It seems pretty obvious as qxB, Kxq, Rxp (king can
't save d pawn or rook cuts him off) so king scoots out of the way, Rxp, leaving
KPPkr.  I would think tablebase files would help a lot.




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