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Subject: Re: Pawn endgame test suite

Author: allan johnson

Date: 23:53:03 10/07/00

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On October 08, 2000 at 02:47:13, allan johnson wrote:

>Peter Here is another interesting end game position.It comes from Alex
> Cvetkov's book Pawn Endings (I've found it very helpful)It's based on what
>he refers to as the "moving square to win rule" although paradoxically this
>is a drawn game. [D]8/8/3k4/7p/p1P2ppP/Pp2Pp2/1P3P1K/8 w - -
>  Many computers play exf4 which loses to 1exf4 Kc5 2f5 Kd6 3Kg3 Ke5 and black
> captures both disconnected pawns. On 1e4 however given that only one square
> separates the pawns white manages to draw.
> I would assume all this sort of info is written into chess programmes*> Cheers Allan
 *The latest chess programmes I mean



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