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Subject: Re: Where is the handicap?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:19:12 10/29/05

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On October 29, 2005 at 05:15:02, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>>>      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

I do not know the gui that was used for the game and in this case the plan Kd3
Rc4 Bb4 Rb2-e2-e4 Rxd4+ is simply too deep for fruit to see.

Uri



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