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Subject: Re: Any engines see this?

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 12:00:37 10/17/02

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On October 17, 2002 at 14:41:07, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

The idea is RxN QxN Rxp!

Regards
Jonas

• 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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