Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Ooops! Re: Kc2 is a winning move.

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 02:07:40 03/05/99

Go up one level in this thread


On March 05, 1999 at 05:05:34, Harald Faber wrote:

>On March 05, 1999 at 04:04:08, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>
>>>>>>Jouni, position #1 is a draw. Kc2 doesn´t win. I also noticed that other
>>>>>>positions have more than one solution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Greetings,
>>>>>>Steffen.
>>>>>
>>>>>This is the relevant position
>>>>>5k2/8/8/8/8/2P5/8/3K4 w - - 0 1
>>>>>Kc2 is winning.
>>>>>For example 1.Kc2 Ke7 2.Kb3 Kd6 3.Kb4 Kc6 4.Kc4
>
>>>The position that Jouni and Uri gave is a win -- mate in 22.
>>>
>>>Maybe you got the FEN wrong in your file, Steffen?
>>
>>Oooops, yes, it was a copy-paste bug!
>>I had
>>
>>k2/8/8/8/8/2P5/8/3K4 w
>>
>>instead of
>>
>>5k2/8/8/8/8/2P5/8/3K4 w
>>
>>I am sorry!
>>
>Hehe, I had this too. But it would be interesting to know how the position was
>interpreted with k2 instead of 5k2...

Hi Harald,

I had the king on a8, which is indeed a draw :-) The EPD file on my WWW-Page is
now corrected.

Greetings,
Steffen.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.