Author: Howard Exner
Date: 07:42:31 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 07:52:03, blass uri wrote: > >On January 05, 1999 at 07:11:53, Howard Exner wrote: > >>On January 05, 1999 at 00:01:05, blass uri wrote: >> >> >>>43.Re2 is another mistake typical to chess programs. >>>It is a good test position for chess programs >>>4R3/7p/3k1pp1/1p6/p4PPP/P4K2/1Pr5/8 w - - 0 1 >>>chessmaster6000 needed more than 80 minutes on my pentium200 to avoid 43.Re2 >> >>This looks difficult to defend no matter what white plays. What do you >>suggest white does? The active Rh8 at first looks good but then there are lines >>where black picks up the two queenside pawns and starts marching his passers. >>White in the meantime gets three pawns on the kingside but they are too far >>back. Maybe there is some easy line I overlooked that can save white. >I am not sure if white can defend itself but after Re2 it is easy to prove that >black wins. Of course Re2 is a move that most humans would easily reject. Luckily for us this weakness of chess software, the endgame, allows us to have some hope of winning or drawing the odd game. White should not have lost this game. Maybe earlier, I think around move #38, g5 would have been good. 8/1r3p1p/3k2p1/1p2R3/p4PP1/P7/1P4KP/8 w - - id Fritz 5.32 - CM6K; bm g4g5; > >Rh8 or Re8+ are the choices of fritz5 after a long time. > >I will analyze it when I have time >Uri
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