Author: José Carlos
Date: 00:50:01 02/26/01
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On February 25, 2001 at 21:31:33, Pete Galati wrote: >On February 25, 2001 at 17:01:25, Chessfun wrote: > >> >>On checking the pgn of game 10 of my Valentines Tourney >>between Fritz 6 (12-16-2000) and Junior 6a, I came across >>the following ending. >> >>This is the position after 65....h5 >> >>[D]8/5r2/6k1/3R1p1p/5P1p/3B1K2/8/b7 w >> >>Fritz white played 66. Rxf5 eval as -0.28/14, then the very following >>move scored -5.09/17. So at some point it must have seen that the resultant >>position after the rook comes off is drawn to have played 66. Rxf5. But then >>later scores it as a large -. As can be seen from the pgn's Junior for a long >>time 70 odd moves felt itself as more than +5.00 wheras Fritz 6 after the rook >>came off knew it was drawn. >> >>Junior's pgn followed by Fritz 6 pgn. >>Note; Junior's pgn scores show - minus as it is black. >> > >Comet doesn't look at Rxf5, it seems to want to send it's King after Black's >pawn in the h file. I don't think I could have personally played Rxf5 because I >would see it as trading pieces when I wouldn't be able to see an advantage in >trading. > >To be honest, I didn't follow the other searches to understand the Rxf5 move >though. > >Pete Rf5 is a simple draw, because after trading pieces, black has a KBPP v K where both pawns are in the h file and the bishop does not attack h1, so the with king can move to h1, and can't be moved from the corner. José C.
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