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Subject: Re: Any engines see this?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:41:07 10/17/02

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On October 17, 2002 at 14:33:39, David Dahlem wrote:

>According to the analysis i've seen of the final position in game 6 of
>Kramnik-DF, exchanging Rook for Knight and Pawn here will draw for White.
>Are there any engines that will play, or even consider, this exchange in a
>reasonable (or any) time?
>
>[D]8/5k1p/1R2Rn2/5q2/1p6/6P1/5P2/6K1 w - - 0 44
>
>Regards
>Dave

Very weak engines may find it.

They may capture the knight because they believe that they win the queen and
only after the queen take the rook they may understand that it is a bad idea to
take the queen because the pawn endgame is lost.

Uri

• Re: Any engines see this? Jonas Cohonas 12:00:37 10/17/02
  • Re: Any engines see this? Uri Blass 12:20:50 10/17/02
    • Re: Any engines see this? Gian-Carlo Pascutto 12:42:31 10/17/02
      • Re: Any engines see this? Uri Blass 16:43:43 10/17/02
      • Re: Any engines see this? Vincent Diepeveen 13:31:06 10/17/02
        • Re: Any engines see this? David Dahlem 14:08:04 10/17/02

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