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Subject: Re: Help needed: How can I search a 6 piece position by Nalimov tablebases?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:05:36 12/05/04

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On December 05, 2004 at 06:15:51, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>On December 04, 2004 at 19:53:09, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>On December 04, 2004 at 16:04:45, Tansel Turgut wrote:
>>
>>>I meant that they don't see that black can try to sacrifice the knight for the
>>>c3 pawn.
>>
>>I think, several engines will "know" this (mine included). Another position with
>>this theme was just discussed here -
>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?398597
>>
>>Some engines did solve it very fast (although, some most probably needed support
>>by TBs).
>>
>>Regards,
>>Dieter
>
>There are different levels of "knowing".
>
>Black only has hope in this position because white has a light-squared bishop.
>If white had a dark-squared bishop instead, black could just resign. Yet I bet
>no engine will understand this difference and give a much higher score for the
>dark-squared bishop case.
>
>Vas

I do not see how with so many engines you can be sure that no engine will give
much higher score for the dark squared bishop case.

Uri



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