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Subject: Re: Easy for humans

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 08:34:40 02/17/02

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On February 17, 2002 at 05:43:22, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 17, 2002 at 05:21:47, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On February 17, 2002 at 04:55:13, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>>
>>>Here is another position which is easy to solve for humans. In a blitz game
>>>between Hossa and Arasan the following position was on the board:
>>>
>>>[D]8/8/4B2p/2K5/r5P1/p5k1/Rb6/8 b - - 7 116
>>>
>>>For humans it's rather easy to see that 117... Rxg4 wins without any problems
>>>because the white rook is totally paralyzed. Unfortunately Hossa wasn't able to
>>>see this in the blitz game. So the game continued until the 50 moves rule forced
>>>Hossa to take the bishop and finally to win the game.
>>>Which engines find 117... Rxg4 in which time?
>>
>>Easy for comps too :)
>>
>>2 secs for RC4
>>
>>Ed
>>
>>==============================================================
>>
>>00:00:02.1	1,88	9	449751	Re4 Kd6 Re3 Bf5 Kf4 Be6 Re5 Bd7
>>00:00:02.1	1,88	9	817955	Rxg4
>>00:00:02.1	2,09	9	835992	Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kd5 h5 Kd6 h4 Kd5
>>00:00:03.3	2,17	10	1122788	Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kd5 h5 Ke4 h4 Ke3
>>00:00:04.5	2,01	11	2027319	Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 Kc4 h5 Kd3 Kf3 Kc4
>>00:00:34.6	3,62	12	31107270	Rxg4 Bd7 h5 Bc6 Rf4 Kb5 h4 Ka5
>>00:00:44.1	3,82	13	41624594	Rxg4 Bd7 h5 Bc6 Rf4 Bb5
>
>
>Trivial for Deep Fritz
>
>It knows that opposite color bishops with one pawn advantage gives good chances
>for a draw so it's only choice is to sacrifice the rook by evaluation.


Where do you see an opposite bishops ending after Rxg4 Bxg4 Kxg4 ?



    Christophe



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