Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 11:57:55 06/10/02
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On June 10, 2002 at 14:10:33, John Merlino wrote: >On June 10, 2002 at 03:55:48, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>I'm sure this has been covered before, but I'm curious if any program can tell >>right away that this position is a draw, and if not, why not? It took me but a >>few minutes to create a method for determining if this position was drawn or >>not. Is detecting this draw harder than I am anticipating, or is it simply a >>matter that there is no need for such draw detection? >> >>I tried it with Fritz and it scored about 0.5 for white after 6 minutes. >> >>[D]4b3/4k3/2p1p1p1/1pPpPpPp/pP1P1P1P/P2K4/3B4/8 w - - 0 1 >> >>Russell > >Chessmaster 9000 knows: How can you tell? I also get an equal score in my prog, but I know it has nothing to do with any draw recognition. depth=36 +0.03 1.Bc1 Kf8 2.Kc2 Bd7 3.Bd2 Kg8 4.Kb1 Bc8 5.Bc3 Bd7 6.Bd2 Bc8 7.Bc3 Bd7 8.Ka1 Bc8 9.Bd2 Bd7 10.Bc3 Bc8 11.Bd2 Bd7 12.Bc1 Be8 13.Kb1 Bd7 14.Be3 Bc8 15.Kb2 Bd7 16.Kb1 Kg7 -S.
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