Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 08:35:31 02/07/03
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On February 07, 2003 at 07:27:41, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >no human would play a4 even if a4 is the shortest way to mate. It is a table >base win. >A simple human win is Nf3 or Ne4 and if black plays Kxc4 white answers Nd2 >followed by Nb1 and the win is clear even for a weak player. Also, most (if not all) engines will probably not win this without TBs after giving away the pawn, while they should have no problem at all, to win it when keeping the pawn and give a knight. So an engine, that is supposed to work without (or without all 5-men) TBs should try to keep the pawn. Regards, Dieter
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