Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 09:06:40 02/09/99
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On February 09, 1999 at 11:46:33, Soren Riis wrote: >I am VERY confused. The idea of introducing "!!!" for moves say completely >outside the range of grandmasters grasp of the game seems interesting - but what >on earth has this to do with the "baby" problems you suggest. Even a mediocre >chess player see that Re8 is the easiest win in the first position. Black is >dead lost and white can actually win by other moves than Re8. In the second >position Rf6+ is almost trivial and it is hard to imagine any woodpusher who >would not make that move. Even someone who got his/her first chess set this >christmas should by now have no problems in finding Rf6+. And clearly Kh2 also >wins... The third problem is a clear draw so I do not understand you suggestion >about something might be hidden down the line. Could you be more specific? Look at the original problems. Each suggests a move. Each suggested move leads directly to the person making the 'best move' getting mated anyway. How good is that 'best move'? Not terribly great. If the positions are really that obvious, then it is a terrible bug in the epd test suite. The updated positions I showed were *after* the supposedly best move was made. The 'best move' did not help one iota. Therefore, either the book was horribly wrong (or the position was transcribed incorrectly) or there is an even better response to a best move.
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