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Subject: Re: Position solved.

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 14:13:44 10/13/02

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On October 13, 2002 at 16:57:04, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On October 12, 2002 at 18:38:58, Robin Smith wrote:
>
>>How does Patzer manage to solve this position?  The solution is an unusual
>>fortress which involves putting black's king into a cage from which it cannot
>>escape.  Does patzer have special knowlege for this type of position?  Do any
>>other programs have this knowlege?  I would think no program would ever see a
>>near draw score here.
>
>I think, it should be Roland Pfister's honour, to tell this. I can say, that
>when I implement an idea of Roland (which is disabled in my engine by default),
>Yace will find Kc6 in reasonable time. To implement the idea, needed only 5
>lines in the source code, but makes the engine a bit slower in general.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

Can you tell what is that idea? :)



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