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Subject: Re: What is Ferret doing?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:43:21 06/20/99

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On June 20, 1999 at 07:06:40, blass uri wrote:

>
>On June 19, 1999 at 21:07:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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><snipped>
>>by move 25 or so white was not just lost, but dead lost.  I was talking with
>>Roman at the time and he said something like "I have _never_ seen white get
>>into such a dead lost position so quickly..."
>
>I am interested to know if the people that say it can win against shredder from
>the position after 25 moves.
>
>I prefer black's position but I cannot say that white is lost only because Roman
>said it.
>
>impression of humans is often not correct.
>
>Uri


Roman said "white is dead lost".  Kawas said the same thing.  Two other GMs also
agreed.  Look at the pieces.  Knight on a1 with zero moves.  Rooks have 1 move
between them.  Queen has zero moves.  Ugly beyond belief...  But it played well
after Ferret liquidated the bind to pick up a pawn...



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