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Subject: Re: some positions, incl pawn majority in endgame

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 20:13:03 07/17/00

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On July 17, 2000 at 22:29:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 17, 2000 at 20:26:44, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>These are from an interesting game/30 on ICC.
>>
>>21...Qxa2 the best?
>>5rr1/p5pp/1pp2k2/q3p1NQ/4P3/1RbP4/P4PPP/5K1R b - -
>>
>>22.Nxh7+ (how long to avoid?)
>>5rr1/p5pp/1pp2k2/4p1NQ/4P3/1RbP4/q4PPP/5K1R w - -
>>
>>36...Qe6!?  (anyone play this?)
>>8/3k1r2/1pp4P/p3p2K/3bP1Q1/5P2/q5P1/7R b - -
>>
>>after 38.Kg6 (can the black pawns be stopped? if not, what's the proper eval
>>score here?)
>>8/5r2/1pp1k1KP/p3p3/3bP3/5P2/6P1/7R b - -
>>
>>
>
>
>These are crossover positions.  There is interaction between wanting to reach
>an endgame with a queen-side majority, and trying to mate your opponent with
>his king way up the h file and queens still on.  If you want to play
>karpov-like, trading queens is the right idea.  If you want to play kasparov-
>like, keeping queens on is the right idea...
>
>all a matter of 'style' here...
>

Hmmm.. so, you're saying that these positions (the last two) are too deep to be
evaluated to a conclusive understanding by human or computer.  Style implies
intuition.  Would be interesting to show otherwise, with some confidence.





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