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Subject: Re: funny position with lots of bishops :-)

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 10:18:19 10/18/99

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On October 18, 1999 at 10:09:01, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>Hi all!
>
>I had a short discussion with Bob Hyatt about the detection of bishop pairs.
>E.g. crafty only looks if there are at least two bishops but doesnt look at the
>color of the squares. Therefore I setup the following position to test what your
>program is doing... I wonder if there is a program which sees that this is a
>draw :-)
>
>3k4/8/8/8/8/8/1B1B1B1B/B1BKB1B1 w
>
>Best wishes,
>Steffen.

Hello Steffen,
This is Funny!  I had Rebel 10c loaded when I saw this so I let it have a go.
It immediately scores the position over 23 points and rising to 24.  :-)
Jim Walker



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