Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:49:51 08/24/02
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On August 25, 2002 at 00:46:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 23, 2002 at 09:35:40, Frank Phillips wrote: > >>[D]7k/7p/8/8/1pP2P2/p7/3K4/8 w - - >> >>I would be interested in your static score for the above position and how your >>search responds. >> >>My static score favours white. The search initially favours black, but then >>recognises white is winning. >> >>(In the actually game the search did not see the danger in time and playing >>Rxd2+ >>[D]3r3k/7p/8/8/ppP2P2/8/3BK3/8 b - -). >> >> >>Frank > > >The first position is cute. Crafty thinks black is winning easily. >Black has a protected passer while white has two passers that the king >can stop. It doesn't realize that when the king stops one, the other >runs. It takes 3 seconds on mhy PIII/750 to fail low and see white is >winning +5 or more... I missed the second position. I tried it and Crafty immediately liked the RxB capture but it gave up at 3 seconds on my PIII/750 and switched to Rb8 which is probably good enough to win outright.
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