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Subject: Re: why did the sides agree to a draw in sjeng-tiger14.6?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:46:45 11/04/01

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On November 03, 2001 at 14:52:49, Uri Blass wrote:

>Is it a draw or maybe sjeng missed a chance to win the game against tiger by
>agreeing to a draw?
>
>Sjeng - Chess Tiger 14.6
>[D]8/5p1p/5Kp1/3n4/8/4P1P1/1kp2P1P/5R2 w - - 0 1

It's hard to tell really. If the white king can eliminate all black
pawns, it's at least a draw for white. But I wasn't sure that

a) it was really possible (Sjeng only had two captures in the PV)
b) Sjeng was actually going to do it instead of saving it's white
pawns (which scared me most)

So I gladly took the draw. Analyzing this with an engine and
it saying +whatever doesn't mean white can win. Tiger was up +2.8
in the game and it was still a draw.

--
GCP



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