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Subject: Re: Try this one on your program...

Author: Paulo Soares

Date: 16:39:27 05/19/99

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On May 19, 1999 at 14:34:15, Francis Monkman wrote:

>Here's a nice position arrived at 'not entirely by chance', from a game
>Raicevic-Suba, Novi Sad 1974.
>
>4r1k1/pbpp1ppp/1b4q1/5n2/3P3r/2Q1PP1N/PP4PP/R1BB1R1K b - -
>
>Black is clearly winning after ...Qh6 e4 Ng3+, when hxg3 loses to
>...Rxh3, or Kg1 to ...Qd6. (In fact, the game went ...Qe6 Bb3 Qh6 etc.)
>
>Most engines play ...Qh6, although seeing no better than a draw after
>5 minutes or so (presumably the usual 'perpetual check' loop). One
>or two, somewhat endearingly, prefer the text move, while CSTal II
>likes ...Re6, one or two like ...Ba6. Hiarcs 7 refuses to load the
>position without an answer! Any program find its way through the 'draw
>trap' (inside 5 mins or so), and play ...Qh6 for the 'right reasons'?
>
>Francis

Look for the answer of Ed Schroder in Rebel site(Rebel Board)for
this question:
"I have some questions about the new Search Settings of rebel 10.5"

Paulo Soares, from Brazil



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