Author: Howard Exner
Date: 18:55:49 08/29/99
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On August 29, 1999 at 21:15:56, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >I wonder why this position is in a testset for computers, >as when i analyzed the win here some years ago > i needed some 40 moves before >any evaluation of a computer could see it as a win. It would be great if you happened to save your analysis. Did you? A few of us have been trying to work this difficult endgame out assisted by computer programs (in my case at least). > >that's 80 ply, as white king has to move a lot from one side >to another and such Just a guess but maybe it was testing whether programs had some kind of code for toatally blocked positions. As humans we know that without the pawn break, c5 the score is 0.00. Most programs most likely see the position before the break as approxiamately +1.XX. Would programs therefore chose a move like c5? Maybe in the future. Even now some cunning programmer might have code that detects such blocked positions as a draw?
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