Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 00:39:26 01/08/00
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On January 07, 2000 at 23:07:03, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On January 07, 2000 at 20:38:22, Tim Mirabile wrote: >>- the healthy pawn majority on the g+h files will decide the game because three >>connected passed pawns can promote against the enemy king without help > >Not true, ??? My statements assume the rules of chess will be enforced, that is that both sides will be required to make moves. >You're right that the position can be evaluated quickly by a human, but you must >be aware of all of the subtleties to do it successfully. You got lucky. Right >evaluation, but your "chunking" was off. Summing up: Gee... Somehow, I think I know what I'm doing... >-Black stops whites pawns (K vs 2P) and _can_ tempo with his king. > >-White "stops" blacks pawns (K vs 3P) and _cannot_ tempo with his king. Just a different way of saying the same thing. White cannot stop three connected pawns because of his obligation to move. Since this goes without saying, I didn't say it. [...] >As you can see, chunking is fraught with pitfalls and one must have a lot of >knowledge and experience to do it correctly and even then a mistake can be made. >Berliner himself trips himself up in his book where he talks about chunking. So >you are in good company. Chunking should be checked by concrete calculation to >be safe. Of course, but in this case it really is a no-brainer. I am certainly no fan of Berliner's book. I wasn't even thinking of it when I used the word "chunking".
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