Author: Albert Silver
Date: 09:08:25 07/02/99
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On July 02, 1999 at 00:15:12, Laurence Chen wrote:
>This position occurred in a game between Chessmaster 6000 and Hiarcs 7.32, game
>in 15 minutes. Chessmaster lost in time, however, because the engine never
>resigns, I decided to continue playing and to my surprise Hiarcs 7.32 fell into
>a swindle. It played a terrible move which allowed Chessmaster to get away with
>perpetual check. Fortunately for Hiarcs 7.32, it won on time, but it bothers me
>that Hiarcs 7.32 has some tactical bugs which needs to be fixed. I hope that
>Mark Uniacke is reading this, and perhaps he can post a fix to this engine bug.
>Below is the position:
>8/r7/6Rp/Q1pk3P/2q2p2/2P5/8/KB6 w - - 0 1
>Hiarcs played 1. Qxa7??? which allows Chessmaster 6000 to force a perpetual
>check with 1. Qxc3+. Fritz 5.32 finds an elegant solution, 1. Qa2 forcing an
>exchange and winning easily.
>Laurence
Actually 1. Qa2 draws as well after 1...Ke5. White has nothing better to do than
to take the rook on a7 now and Black has the same perpetual as before.
Albert Silver
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