Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:35:04 04/20/02
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On April 20, 2002 at 11:53:46, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 20, 2002 at 03:01:01, Peter Berger wrote: > >>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 > > > >I think that you are right and that the 50 moves rule is going to save Tiger >here. > >As I told you in email, there is a bug in version 14.9. Tiger thinks this KRN/K >endgame is actually a KRN/KR. So it uses the wrong knowledge here because of >this bug and is not trying to push the king to the border to mate it. I do not understand it because even in KRN vs KR it is better for the stronger side to reduce the distance between the kings and palm tiger did not do an effort to do it(even if you use only piece square table evaluation then centralizing the king should give better moves than the moves that I saw). Uri
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