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Subject: Re: Where is the handicap?

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 02:20:15 10/29/05

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On October 29, 2005 at 05:19:12, Uri Blass wrote:

>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


      This is of course true too :-)
      Regards
      Kurt



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