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Subject: Re: Where is the handicap?

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 02:15:02 10/29/05

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>>      Hi Uri
>>      Is the 256 moves problem indeed a problem. I've just searched
>>      in my computer games collection - almost 100,000 games - and
>>      could not find a single game that either was not decisive
>>      within 256 moves or could have been stopped (adjusted) within
>>      256 moves with 1-0, 0-1 or 1/2-1/2.
>>      Regards
>>      Kurt
>
>Of course it is a problem in comp-comp games
>
>Here is an example
>
>Fruit2.2 blundered by 298...Rg7 and it is impossible to stop the simple mate
>plan Kd3 Rc4 Bb4 Rb2-e2-e4 Rxd4+ with mate
>
[D]r7/1pr5/2p1p2p/P1PkPn1P/3p1Pp1/1R4P1/4K3/2R1B3 b - - 0 298

      Hi Uri
      A good example I have studied but not found
      any explanation about what was going on here.
      It could indeed be a bug caused by the GUI.
      Regards
      Kurt



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