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Subject: Re: Who can find the draw?

Author: William Bryant

Date: 20:02:32 01/30/00

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On January 30, 2000 at 19:23:33, Will Singleton wrote:

>Amateur-Lambchop was a pretty good game today at the ICC tournament.  Vincent
>pointed out that I missed a draw, and it looks like he was right.
>
>What programs see this? (w/o tablebases, which I assume would kick in)
>
>3r4/8/8/P5R1/1K1pk2p/8/7P/8 w - -  bm Rg4+
>
>Will

Will,

I ran this in the current version of Screamer (which does not have table bases,
yet) and did not find a draw at 15:00 which is way beyond tournament time
controls.  Screamer could not decide between the moves Rg4+, a6, Kc5, and Kb3.
It ultimately settled for Kb3 with about at  -2.79.

MacChess also switched between Rg4+, a6, Kc5, Rg1.  It also didn't find a draw,
but I stopped between 2 and 3 minutes which I guessed as the move time.

I would love to see the PV.  I am assuming that tablebases make it easy (easier)
to see this?

William
wbryant@ix.netcom.com



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