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Subject: Knight vs Bishop with pawns ending

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 01:22:09 01/08/99


b5k1/7p/4p1pP/4P1P1/8/8/8/N5K1 w

Here is a position based on a game between Cm6000 and Fritz 5.32.
( the recent game with the move d3 thread).
I created this position to see if Chess programs have
an accurate assessment of the relative values that the Bishop and
Knight have. Material is equal yet all endgame authors I've read usually
comment on positions like this in the following manner - "White has
a huge advantage as all the pawns are on the same side of the board.
Furthermore whites pawns cannot be attacked and once the powerfull
white Knight reaches f6 the game will be over."


How will programs eventually come to deal with assessing this position
correctly? Will this be a kind of position that programs will never
quite understand? Do any programs penalize the bishop here or
conversely, give the Knight extra value in this position?



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