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Subject: Re: Exchanging a bishop fo two kingside pawns

Author: Dusan Dobes

Date: 07:53:08 12/01/99

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On November 30, 1999 at 18:26:44, Howard Exner wrote:

>Recently their have been some interesting posts on the theme of
>a Bishop exchange for two kingside pawns. One way to test your program
>is to have a series of such positions where at times it is a good idea
>to make the exchange while other times it is not. Below are some that work,
>- a1(posted by Peter McKenzie),b1 (posted last week by yibling fan), c1 and d1.
>The other five positions (a2,a3,b2,c2, and d2) are modifications to
>the originals and for these the exchange of bishop for two pawns should be
>avoided or at least becomes not as certain. Posa3 is now very speculative.

I have run Phalanx XXI/ 10 min/move /pentium 150 on these positions and
it solved them all except Posa3 (the speculative one):

Posa1  Bxh6 in 6.4 s
Posa2  Bxh6 is never in PV
Posa3  Bxh6 is never in PV (speculative)
Posb1  Bxh3 in 75 s
Posb2  Bxh3 is never in PV
Posc1  Bxh6 in 163 s
Posc2  Bxh6 is never in PV
Posd1  Bxh6 in 0.21 s
Posd2  Bxh6 is never in PV

Dusan



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