Author: blass uri
Date: 13:09:19 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 10:42:31, Howard Exner wrote: >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. it was enough to play 42.Re2 instead of 42.Kf3 with a simple draw Uri
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