Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:56:48 01/26/04
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On January 25, 2004 at 14:40:57, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On January 25, 2004 at 10:27:41, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>On January 25, 2004 at 10:24:31, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >> >>>On January 25, 2004 at 10:16:49, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On January 25, 2004 at 09:19:25, Harald Faber wrote: >>>> >>>>>Looks like an easy one because the tbs are near: >>>>> >>>>>[D]7b/8/kq6/8/8/1N2R3/K2P4/8 w - - 0 1</FONT> >>>>> >>>>>White to move and draw. >>>>>But the so-called ELO giants are helpless unless the first move is played on the >>>>>board. But then within seconds they calculate the idea. >>>> >>>>Latest Movei without tablebases finds Nd4 very fast(about 2 seconds on A1000). >>>> >>>>No tablebases are used and movei does not evaluate the position correctly >>>>because it does not know to evaluate KB vs KP. >>>> >>>>Uri >>> >>> >>> >>>Isn't Re6 the drawing move? >> >> >>Sorry, stupid of me. Just took a look, the queen takes the rook and the knight >>can't move. Now, that I took a _good_ look, Nd4 is _the_ move. > >My brain is similarly defective. It's human. ;-) My brain is smart enough to understand that Re6 cannot be a drawing move that programs miss so after thinking about it, the next thought is what is my error and I find in few seconds that after Re6 Qxe6 the knight is pinned. Also in a practical game I immediately suspect that there can be a trap before playing a move that wins material. Uri
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