Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 15:24:20 11/04/01
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On November 04, 2001 at 12:21:12, Andrew Smith wrote: >I hope I can finally get a diagram to work :) > >[D]5q1k/8/1p3rQ1/p1p1pP1P/1pPpP2K/pP1P4/P4R2/8 w - - 0 18 > Just for the record (and out of curiosity), the position seems to be illegal. It is not possible to have such a black pawn structure. At least, you need more captures than white pieces are out of the board. Regards, Miguel >This is an interesting position I came across. Moves like Qg3 and other retreats >can give white a minor advantage maybe from the programs point of view, but it >is not clear if there is a win. In this position Kg5! is winning. If after Rxg6 >hxg6 the pawn moves to f6 and the rook to h7 and eventually black is in a sort >of zugswang. Of course, for a moderately strong human kg5 can be seen in a >couple of second easily, but for computers it doesn't look so easy. What do your >favourite programs say?
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