Author: Mark Young
Date: 06:17:00 12/28/01
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On December 28, 2001 at 09:10:27, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Today Hossa played a blitz game with Tinker at ICC where a KBPKP endgame was on
>the board:
>
>[D]8/8/p4b1P/3K4/8/8/8/1k6 b
>
>Hossa evaluates this as a win for black, because the black pawn has a black
>promotion square and there is no white pawn on the b file in front of the black
>pawn. Unfortunately this position is a draw. Can you define a rule for such a
>position class ("search will do it" doesn't count; at least the big score I gave
>for this position costed 1/2 point in that game)? I think it should be a
>combination of this:
>1. white has an advanced white passer
>2. the black king isnt able to protect the black pawn
>3. the distance between the pawns is big
>
>Greetings,
>Steffen.
Would it not be better for Hossa to use EGTB for this type position? Then Hossa
will solve this position without error.
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