Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:57:57 06/12/01
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On June 13, 2001 at 01:51:34, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On June 11, 2001 at 01:31:14, Jouni Uski wrote: > >> 8/4k3/2K5/6p1/6B1/7P/8/8 w - - > >[...] >>Hmm. Should this already be solved poblem? > >I think, if you can give a rule, under which conditions such positons - >characterized as one side has a rook pawn and a "wrong" bishop and the other >side has a pawn in the file next to the rook pawn - are drawn, it will soon be a >solved problem for many chess engines :-) > >Yace would evaluate this position as draw, when the black pawn on g would be on >any other file (and black would not be trivally winning, by promoting in the >next move). However, how to handle this position, I have no idea. Any ideas are >wellcome ... > >Regards, >Dieter I believe that every position when white has the wrong bishop when black has not more than one pawn is a draw if black can get into the corner or near the corner because4 capturing the pawn with the pawn means stalemate. Uri
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