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Subject: Re: Unusual test position

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:23:12 07/09/04

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On July 09, 2004 at 07:05:03, Jason Kent wrote:

>[D]8/1R6/6kp/1p1r4/1P3P2/P5PP/6K1/8 b - - 4 45
>
>On my computer Ruffian 1.05 and cm9k reccomend playing f5 with a score of 0.00
>here.  Crafty doesn't see the draw and neither do ruffian and cm9k after 1 more
>ply?!

You did not post the game but it seems clear to me that they played Kf5 with
0.00 evaluation because it leads to repetition and a lot of programs evaluate
repetition as a draw even if it is only first repetition.

Uri



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