Author: Mike Hood
Date: 15:15:03 01/25/04
This isn't a constructed position. It cropped up in a small engine tournament that I was running today. White was Fritz 5.32, Black was Junior 7. I have all the 5-piece EGTBs on my PC, but Fritz doesn't use them. [D] 8/8/7Q/8/3K2p1/q5p1/6kP/8 w - - 0 75 It looks bad for White, although if I had this position on the board I might try for a draw by playing Qd2+. In the tournament Fritz 5.32 was playing White, and played hxg3, which it evaluated at -1.87. A typical blunder for a program that doesn't use EGTB probing. Junior 7 immediately recognized that the resulting position was a Mate in 65. Other non-probing engines make the same mistake. List 5.04 plays hxg3, evaluating it at -2.80. Goliath Light also plays hxg3 (-2.00). Are there any non-probing engines that avoid this move?
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