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Subject: Re: Is Kf3 really a winning move?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:35:38 10/13/99

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On October 13, 1999 at 17:04:46, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On October 13, 1999 at 13:32:03, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Looks like black is toast afterwards to me.
>
>The trick to this is that white must be better after Kf3 than after Bxe5.  Black
>is at -5.25 at the bottom of your search, but would Crafty think it's worse
>after Bxe5?  Because I suspect that programs will think White is winning after
>any reasonable move here, and the problem is to find which is truly the best. :)
>
><snip search>

The crafty I chose picked the move in question very quickly.  I used the
secondary analysis to verify that it was (indeed) a good move.



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