Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:38:05 02/09/99
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On February 09, 1999 at 09:36:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 09, 1999 at 08:51:22, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>I should probably ammend the comments so that some EPD parsers won't become >>confused: >>R7/8/8/8/5k2/5pp1/8/6K1 w - -; id "Bruce Moreland Triple Whammy 1"; c0 formerly >>i.d. ECE3.0084 with black to move, after b.m. Kf4; >>5R2/8/7k/5p2/5Kp1/7p/8/8 w - -; id "Bruce Moreland Triple Whammy 2"; c0 i.d. >>ECE3.0242 with black to move, after b.m. Kh6; >>8/8/6p1/6p1/8/5K2/3R4/6kn w - -; id "Bruce Moreland Triple Whammy 3"; c0 >>formerly i.d. ECE3.0507 with black to move, after b.m. g6; >Ernst A. Heinz has verified two of these *and* provided the requested pv and ce. >;-) ECE3.0507 looks drawish according to what Ernst found in contrast with >Bruce M's finding. Perhaps the tablebase can see something farther down the >road on this one. Prize goes to Ernst, despite Bruce's having found them and >reported it. Formal statement of rules, and all that. I'm happy to talk about problems, but you're being a little weird. >(ECE3.0507) >00:06:29 28.01[ -97, -17] g6 Ra2 g4+ Kxg4 Nf2+ Kg3 Ne4+ Kf3 Ng5+ Ke3 =-57 >(-0.45) #162920744 > * Termination due to timeout. > >nps=427565 time=00:10:00 nodes=256380512 > >Best move g6 from iteration 28 has score -57 (-0.45). >Best reply is Ra2. >correct. Wrong, IMHO. 1. ... g6 2. Rg2+ Kf1 3. Rh2 Kg1 4. Rd2 Zugzwang. 4. ... g4+ 5. Kxg4 Kf1 6. Kf6 Kg1 7. Rc2 Zugzwang. 7. ... g5 8. Rd2 Zugzwang. 8. ... g4+ Kxg4 9. Kxg4 Kf1 10. Kf3 Ke1 11. Ra2 Kd1 12. Kg2 and wins the knight. There are other lines that amount to similar things. bruce
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