Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:07:12 03/27/02
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On March 27, 2002 at 09:53:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 27, 2002 at 05:28:28, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>[D]8/B5pp/4k3/P7/6n1/8/P6P/7K b - - 0 41 >> >>Crafty as black played Nxh2!!(??). Yes the game ended draw so the move is >>probably correct, but I doubt, that Crafty's evaluation really understand this. >>E.g. if white plays a6 then black has no way to a8 square... >> >>Crafty 18.14 is clever endgame player, but still I am disappointed, when version >>17.14 solves 4 positions more in my 40 position endgame test and also 17.14 >>is on average about 30% faster in all postions! >> >>Jouni > >It is just using endgame knowledge to go into a forced draw due to bishop >plus wrong rook pawns... Has it been confirmed 100% that 1...Nxh2 is a draw? It DOES look that way to me, but I haven't read a message that showed proof (the original poster seemed to think that 2.a6 might still win -- has that been refuted?).
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