Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:10:48 08/20/00
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On August 20, 2000 at 16:07:29, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >I didn't analyse it with a chess program, but the basic Idea is that all pieces >are blocked, and > >a. white should promote his pawn ( which is possible) >b. black should try to grab the pawn on the second rank. > >White should take the opposition and keep the black king far enough from the g2 >pawn to promote. At the time that will happen white can let the black king run >to the corner, promoting to queen and cover the g2 piece. With some thoughtfull >shuffling the king shouldn't be stalemated but mated in the corner > >Jeroen ;-} I looked at the position for some minutes and did not see a way for white to promote the pawn and to prevent the plan kd5-d4-e3-f2xg2. If you want to convince people that white is winnning then you need to post a logical game line when white is winning. My selective search did not see it and could not see a logical line when white promotr the pawn without losing g2. It is possible to solve the problem by search with the right program because the number of positions KPK is small and you need only to change the evaluation function and define a win for white if white promote the pawn when black cannot reply with Kxg2 and to define a win for black if black capture the pawn g2. I believe that the right program is going to find that white cannot win by this evaluation. I do not believe that white can win after black captures g2 so the consequence is that it is probably a draw. Uri
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