Author: Amir Ban
Date: 03:31:39 11/11/98
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On November 11, 1998 at 00:07:34, Howard Exner wrote: >I just finished playing over some of the games that I had previously missed. >Thanks for posting all 24 games. I have a few questions on some of the >positions. > >This endgame was reached and Junior did not play Kxh6 for about 18 moves, >preferring to dally around with Rook moves. Is this due maybe to >the use of one machine, since there are no hash hits made possible. Or is >this just one of those quirky blindspots that are common to all chess >programs for certain positions? > The latter is true. It's an evaluation anomaly that works against capturing the pawn. There's a mechanism that kicks in after a few moves that keeps this from going on indefinitely. >8/7k/7P/r7/5K2/8/8/8 b - - id Fritz 5.00/16Bit - Junior 5.0; bm Kxh6; > >This position is from round 15. The win still might be problematic for >black. I'd be curious how the two programs might have battled this one >out. > This looks too early to adjudicate indeed. Amir
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