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Subject: Re: Junior: really a 2554 program as SSDF list claims?

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 12:18:54 02/17/99

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On February 17, 1999 at 15:05:02, Howard Exner wrote:

>On February 17, 1999 at 13:32:01, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 17, 1999 at 03:20:53, Howard Exner wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>Instead of f5 manually play for black by moving the king towards the trapped
>>>bishop. The black king should get there in time to capture the bishop. That's
>>>why I put the black king so far away in order to make it more difficult. I
>>>did not want it to be solved by search alone but by some kind of code that
>>>recognizes how dangerous it is to have the bishop trapped.
>>In my "simulation" (before the crafty output) I did the king chase by hand,
>>first closing the door of punching out through the other back pawn with the
>>white bishop by protecting it with the black one.
>>I think the bishop can be saved after taking the pawn.
>
>Perhaps, but what line of play did you follow?

7k/ppp1bpp1/7p/8/8/1P1PB2P/1P3PP1/5K2 w

Here is the line I saw...

1. Bxa7 b6 2.Ke2 (if Bb8 then Bd6) Kg8 (I noticed in your Crafty output
Crafty played Kh7 but that is not approaching the bishop) 3. Ke3 Kf8
and so on



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