Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 16:49:58 10/13/99
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On October 13, 1999 at 17:23:14, Howard Exner wrote: >Here's an example of pawn majority knowledge. A program >with pawn majority knowledge of the queen side configuration in this >example may well find the winning move Qg6+. > >4Q3/6pk/2pq4/3p4/1p1P3p/1P1K1P2/1PP3P1/8 b - - bm Qg6; > >After the exchange of queens will follow the the advance of the black king to >the kingside, then exchanges of the kingside pawns, and finally the king can >march over to pick up the queenside pawns. Is knowledge that white cannot break >through on the queenside essential for solving this? Would any program find Qg6? I think Qg6 only draws. Here's a line: 1. ...Qg6 2. Qxg6 Kxg6 3. Ke3 Kf5 4. c3 g5 5. Ke2 Kf4 6. Kf2 g4 7. fxg4 Kxg4, and this will draw. Can black improve on this? Jeremiah
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