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Subject: Re: Simple endgame...

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 18:20:46 04/21/04

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On April 21, 2004 at 21:16:08, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On April 21, 2004 at 21:13:05, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On April 21, 2004 at 20:04:53, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>On April 21, 2004 at 19:41:32, Paul Byrne wrote:
>>>
>>>>Can someone who actually knows how to play this game, or someone with
>>>>tablebases tell me if this position is winnable?
>>>>
>>>>Trying to decide if my program was just being stupid for 50 moves.  :)
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>-paul
>>>>
>>>>[D]8/R4p2/8/5k2/7p/7r/4K3/8 b - - 1 54
>>>
>>>Looks very drawish
>>>
>>
>>>
>>>4      0:00   -M21     1...Ra3 2.Rxa3 Kg4 3.Ra7 f5 4.Ke3 f4+
>>>                       5.Kf2 Kg5 6.Kf3 Kf5 7.Ra1 Ke5 8.Rh1 Kd4
>>>                       9.Rxh4 Kc4 10.Rh5 Kc3 11.Kxf4 Kd3
>>>                       12.Rd5+ Kc3 13.Ke3 Kc4 14.Re5 Kb3 (104) 0
>>>
>>
>>
>>if black plays Ra3 , it is dead loss, so what's up with this pv?
>
>It's a "multipv" print that shows a score for all the moves.
>There are 4 losing moves and the rest draws, Ra3 is one of the losing moves.
>
>-S.

I didn't realize - thanks for the info.



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