Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: To: Peter Berger

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 00:01:01 04/20/02

Go up one level in this thread


On April 20, 2002 at 00:29:10, Uri Blass wrote:

>The fact that tiger did no progress in the last moves is not a good reason to
>afjudicate it as a draw.
>
>Tiger has KRN vs K and the game should continue.
>
>Maybe tiger does not know to win KRN vs K but the 50 move rule are going to
>force it to sacrifice the knight and get KR vs K that it knows to win.
>
>I do not know about the knowledge of palm tiger but it is one possibility.
>
>Uri

You are completely right and I came to the same conclusion. It was partly a
technical decision as I was really too tired to watch this game any longer. And
I expect exactly the same as you ( the Tiger sacrifices the knight because of
the 50 move rule and then will know how to mate). I think I will let them replay
this endgame (sigh).

Peter



This page took 0.01 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.