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Subject: Re: Transposition into won endgame

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 00:19:28 01/31/04

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On January 30, 2004 at 19:02:39, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On January 30, 2004 at 17:51:32, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>The position below is from a 90m+30s game between
>>Shredder8 and ChessTiger15 in which White easily
>>won with 45.Qf6 and an won pawn ending. Interesting
>>to see that many engines do not find the winning
>>move within reasonalbe time, i.e. Chess Tiger 15
>>whereas it's no problem for Chess Tiger 14.
>>Kurt
>>
>>[D]8/4Q3/p5k1/1p2P3/5q2/P2K4/1P6/8 w - - 0 46
>>
>>
>>Shredder 8 - Chess Tiger 15.0
>>8/6k1/p3Q3/1p2P3/5q2/P2K4/1P6/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>
>
>
>Well, I would say that Chess Tiger 15 sucks here. Obviously, the special
>zugzwang detection system introduced in version 15 is not doing very good
>here...
>
>I must have a look at this.
>
>
>
>    Christophe


     It's always nice to have some instructive examples.
     Kurt



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