Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:28:30 05/26/99
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On May 26, 1999 at 18:13:20, Paul Richards wrote: >On May 26, 1999 at 14:12:14, eric guttenberg wrote: > >>As a matter of fact F5.32 appears to recognize the wrong bishop concept when >>there is only one pawn on the a or h file..but F5.32 becomes stupid if there >>is more than one pawn on that file. > >How funny! Perhaps Fritz is programmed with the equivalent of "if rook >pawn and wrong color bishop then if queening square can be reached = >draw", but the "if rook pawn" is not invoked correctly because there >is more than one. With tablebase access this should be a no-brainer, >so I'm not sure what the story is. tablebases don't help... as with the second pawn, there are too many pieces on the board (> 5). with just B+RP vs K it can find that in the 4 piece files. a second pawn could be found in the 5 piece files, except that fritz doesn't have a single KBPPK type file since that was never done by Ken Thompson. And without the knowledge, it is 'dead'.
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