Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 10:25:15 04/27/99
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On April 27, 1999 at 08:22:21, Harald Faber wrote:
>On April 27, 1999 at 08:00:18, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>
>>>Again, now the correct position where Crafty and Fritz only see Be5 as best move
>>>while Be7 easily wins:
>>>
>>>qnb5/1p1k1K2/pPp2B2/P1p5/2P5/8/8/8 b - -
>>
>>May be I'm sitting on the wire. -:)
>>The above FEN position looks as follows:
>>
>>
>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>> 8 | *Q| *N| *B| | | | | |
>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>> 7 | | *P| | *K| B | K | | |
>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>> 6 | *P| P | *P| | | | | |
>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>> 5 | P | | *P| | | | | |
>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>> 4 | | | P | | | | | |
>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>> 3 | | | | | | | | |
>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>> 2 | | | | | | | | |
>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>> 1 | | | | | | | | |
>> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>> a b c d e f g h
>>
>>How can a black bishop move to e5 or e7 in this position?
>>I see only one black bishob on c8. This bishop can not move anywhere.
>>Can you enlighten me please?
>>
>>Kind regards
>>Bernhard
>
>Argh! Amazing what can go wrong...put the WHITE BISHOP back to f6 and then WHITE
>TO MOVE. Now Be7 wins while Crafty and Fritz, well, you know what...
Here is my output (WITH nullmove - I have not changed anything about nullmove in
the code)
8-> 0.17 7.14 1. Be7 Qa7 2. bxa7 Kc7 3. a8=Q Nd7
4. Kg7 Ne5
9 0.18 -- 1. Be7
9 0.22 ++ 1. Be7!!
9 0.57 Mat06 1. Be7 Qa7 2. bxa7 Kc7 3. Bd6+ Kxd6
4. axb8=Q+ Kd7 5. Qe5 b5 6. Qe7#
9-> 0.58 Mat06 1. Be7 Qa7 2. bxa7 Kc7 3. Bd6+ Kxd6
4. axb8=Q+ Kd7 5. Qe5 b5 6. Qe7#
Jeremiah
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