Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:13:00 02/11/01
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On February 11, 2001 at 18:23:01, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 11, 2001 at 18:10:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 11, 2001 at 12:24:21, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >> >>>in this position : >>> >>>[d]k7/p7/1p6/3p4/3K1B2/r7/8/4R3 w - - 0 1 >>> >>>Gambit Tiger 1.0 gives +2.14 for white , I think it's a big overevaluation for >>>white ! >>> >>> >> >> >>It's a common enough error. In reality if anybody wins, black wins. White >>has no winning chances at all. > > >I disagree. > >In a game between humans white has chances because he has chances to capture all >the black pawns and win the KRB vs KR endgame. > >In a game between computers white has also chances if the defender does not use >the KRB vs KR tablebases. > >It is a draw but I prefer white because white captures one pawn and is not going >to lose with Rook and bishop against Rook and 2 pawns beacause the pawns are at >a7 and b6 and the king is in the middle of the board so it is easy for white to >prevent the pawns to get forward. > >Black practically may lose by the following steps: >1)losing the pawns >2)not finding the right moves in KR vs KRB endgame. > >Uri Black can also drop dead and his flag will fall. :) Otherwise I can't imagine black losing this. Drawing KRB vs KR is _not_ a difficult task.
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