Author: Howard Exner
Date: 17:35:32 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 16:09:19, blass uri wrote: > >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 I'm not questioning really how or when white could have drawn this. Probably at many different junctures. I am doubting your previous claim that move #43 poses a good test position however. You claimed that 43 Re2 is the losing move. My request was , what is white's draw plan here at move 43? Sure Re2 loses but what move doesn't lose? > >Uri
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