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Subject: Re: Rook + f + h pawns vs. Rook

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:16:10 02/01/04

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On February 01, 2004 at 17:56:18, Ed Trice wrote:

>I am wondering if Fritz has a specific evaluation routine for indentifying drawn
>Rook + f + h pawns vs. Rook arrangements. In the Crafty-Hiarcs game from the
>last round of the tournament, it was kibitzing a draw score for quite some time.
>
>Could it be  possible to encode such a large subset of knowledge into a faultess
>"tablebase equivalent"? Or was it making the correct prediction for an incorrect
>reason?


Fritz was wrong.  It kibitzed 0.0 for 50 moves.  But if you remove rooks, white
wins instantly due to distant majority/passer.  Fritz 7 did not have a clue
about that...



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