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Subject: Re: Endgame trap; some progs see it - Fritz looking stupid again

Author: Paul Richards

Date: 15:09:30 05/26/99

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On May 26, 1999 at 13:30:47, James Robertson wrote:

>My program has no clue either. I think the depth required to see that there is
>nothing better than repetition is quite high (my program did not see the
>repetition after 14 plies), and unless you have special knowledge, a program
>will not solve this one.

Actually the depth is very low if the program understands this basic rule
of endgames, namely that if the pawn is a rook pawn, black can draw if
he can get his king to the queening square and the bishop is the wrong
color to force him out.  This position is a clever test of this rule.



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