Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:41:07 09/14/00
Go up one level in this thread
On September 14, 2000 at 18:55:51, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On September 14, 2000 at 18:44:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >>>8/8/p2k3p/1P1p1pp1/P1r5/1R1K1PP1/7P/8 b - - > >> >>Yeah, right. Another reason to "love" netscape. When I did a cut and >>paste, it somehow didn't copy the entire FEN string. Leaving black with >>another pawn on the queenside that changes everything. Without the extra >>pawn it isn't hard to see (IMHO)... ie it is exactly what happens after >>an outside passed pawn has been used to decoy the enemy king away too far. > > But what does crafty think of this position? As I mentioned in another post, crafty has a "hole" here. IE if you move the black king one square from where it is, and put a white pawn on that square, the static eval says "white wins" because of the distant passer. But the instant the distant passer evaporates, the term goes away. In normal positions, this doesn't hurt a lot as by the time it has to give up the passer it can see that it wins pawns on the other side. But here it isn't so easy as black has a few horizon moves to throw in at key times. I almost have this fixed, finally, which will likely let it find a5 almost instantly since king moves lose and the axb5 evaporates the queenside with white's king too close to stop on the kingside.
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.