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Subject: Re: Can any program see that this is a draw?

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 04:50:14 06/10/02

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On June 10, 2002 at 07:01:03, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On June 10, 2002 at 06:41:07, Benny Antonsson wrote:
>>Like this.... My stupid program wants to take the rook !
>
>Since the position you posted isn't exactly legal since you have like 20
>something black pieces on the board, I tried this position:
>
>[D]4b1r1/4k3/1rp1p1p1/1pPpPpPp/pP1P1P1P/P2K4/3B4/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Apparently Fritz isn't any smarter than your program, because it wants to take
>the rook too! Fritz sees this as -4.71 in favor of black after cxb6, and it sees
>the position as -8.84 in favor of black after the "next best move" Be3. I always
>knew that deep down I was better than my computer!
>
>Russell

Some times ago someone created positions like that to show the "AS" of the
programs (artificial stupidness"). :)

Helmut



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