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Subject: Re: Testposition - Pawn ending

Author: pavel

Date: 10:31:29 12/27/01

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On December 27, 2001 at 11:13:40, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
> [D]8/3k2p1/4pp2/1p2PP2/1PpP2P1/8/4K3/8 w - - 0 35
>
> This position is from a game Rocha - Spraggett, 1999.
> White is worse here and there are several ways for him to
> lose this position. Hecht, in his commentaries, even thought
> that the key move is the only way for white to make the draw.
> This ending is tricky, so I'm not 100% sure that Hecht is correct.
> Anyway, white has a simple and straight forward way to secure the draw.
>
> Theme - pawn ending: One protected passer can hold his own vs two connected.
>
>
> Test: Programs with some of this knowledge should evaluate the position
>       after 1.d5! as 0.00 or close to it.
>
>
>[Event "Boavista Masters"]
>[Site "Porto"]
>[Date "1999.12.31"]
>[Round "5"]
>[White "Rocha, Sergio"]
>[Black "Spraggett, Kevin"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>[ECO "C02"]
>[WhiteElo "2427"]
>[BlackElo "2521"]
>[Annotator "Hecht"]
>[SetUp "1"]
>[FEN "8/3k2p1/4pp2/1p2PP2/1PpP2P1/8/4K3/8 w - - 0 35"]
>[PlyCount "12"]
>[EventDate "1999.12.27"]
>
>35. d5 $1 exd5 36. e6+ Ke7 37. Ke3 c3 38. Kd3 d4 39. Kc2 g5 40. Kd3 Kd6 1/2-1/2
>
>Sune


this is what crafty thinks without TB (dunnno if it needs it).

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Analysis by Crafty 18.12:

1.Ke3
  -+  (-1.52)   depth: 1/7   00:00:00
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.fxe6 Kxe6
  µ  (-1.33)   depth: 2/7   00:00:00
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4
  µ  (-1.32)   depth: 3/7   00:00:00
1.d5 exd5 2.e6+ Ke7
  µ  (-1.28)   depth: 3/7   00:00:00
1.d5 exd5 2.e6+ Ke7 3.Ke3
  µ  (-1.18)   depth: 4/10   00:00:00
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 Kf7 3.fxe6+ Kxe6
  µ  (-1.13)   depth: 4/10   00:00:00
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.d5 exd5 3.e6
  µ  (-1.18)   depth: 5/10   00:00:00
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 fxe5 3.dxe5 c3 4.Ke3
  µ  (-0.95)   depth: 6/12   00:00:00  14kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 fxe5 3.dxe5 Kf7 4.Kd4 Ke7
  µ  (-0.98)   depth: 7/13   00:00:00  34kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 fxe5 3.dxe5 Kf7 4.Kd4 Ke7 5.Ke4
  µ  (-0.98)   depth: 8/15   00:00:00  83kN
1.Kf2 fxe5 2.dxe5 Ke7 3.Ke3 Kf7 4.Kf2 c3 5.Ke3
  µ  (-0.85)   depth: 8/15   00:00:00  121kN
1.Kf2 fxe5 2.dxe5 Ke8 3.Ke3 Ke7 4.Kd4 Kf7 5.Ke4
  ³  (-0.46)   depth: 9/17   00:00:00  179kN
1.Ke3
  ³  (-0.45)   depth: 9/17   00:00:00  212kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 fxe5 3.dxe5 Ke8 4.f6 Kf8 5.Kd4 Kf7 6.fxg7 Kxg7
  ³  (-0.27)   depth: 9/17   00:00:00  293kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 fxe5 3.dxe5 Ke8 4.Kd4 Kf8 5.f6
  ³  (-0.27)   depth: 10/22   00:00:00  421kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 fxe5 3.dxe5 Kf7 4.Kd4 Ke7
  =  (0.00)   depth: 11/22   00:00:01  704kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 fxe5 3.dxe5 Kf7 4.Kd4 Ke7 5.Ke4
  =  (0.00)   depth: 12/24   00:00:02  1179kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.fxg6 fxe5 4.dxe5 Kf8 5.Ke3 Kg7 6.g5 Kxg6 7.Kf4
  =  (-0.16)   depth: 13/26   00:00:03  2152kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.fxg6 fxe5 4.dxe5 Kf8 5.Ke3 Kg7 6.Kf4 Kxg6 7.Ke3
  ³  (-0.26)   depth: 14/29   00:00:06  3750kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.fxg6 fxe5 4.dxe5 Kf8 5.Ke3 Kg7 6.Kf4 Kxg6 7.Ke4 Kf7 8.g5
Kg6
  ³  (-0.36)   depth: 15/31   00:00:09  6407kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.exf6+ Kxf6 4.fxg6 Kxg6 5.Ke3 Kg5 6.Kf3 Kf6 7.Kf4 Kg7 8.Ke3
Kg6 9.Kf2 Kf6 10.Ke3
  ³  (-0.70)   depth: 16/34   00:00:19  13086kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.exf6+ Kxf6 4.fxg6 Kxg6 5.Ke3 Kg5 6.Kf3 Kf6 7.Kf4 Kg7 8.Ke3
Kg6 9.Kf2 Kf7 10.Ke3 Ke7
  ³  (-0.70)   depth: 17/39   00:00:29  20215kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.exf6+ Kxf6 4.fxe6 Kxe6 5.Ke3 Kd5 6.g5 c3 7.Kd3 c2 8.Kxc2
Kxd4 9.Kd2 Kc4 10.Ke3 Kxb4 11.Kd4
  -+  (-1.58)   depth: 18/44   00:00:59  40483kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.exf6+ Kxf6 4.fxe6 Kxe6 5.Ke3 Kd6 6.Ke4 Ke7 7.Kf4 Kf7 8.Ke3
Kf6 9.Kd2 Ke7 10.Ke3 Ke6 11.Ke4 g5
  -+  (-1.53)   depth: 19/46   00:01:54  76470kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.exf6+ Kxf6 4.g5+ Kxg5 5.fxe6 Kf6 6.d5 g5 7.Kd4 g4 8.Kc5 Ke7
9.d6+ Kxe6 10.Kc6 c3 11.d7 c2 12.d8Q c1Q+ 13.Kxb5 g3
  µ  (-1.40)   depth: 20/47   00:03:33  142724kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.exf6+ Kxf6 4.g5+ Kxg5 5.fxe6 Kf6 6.d5 g5 7.Kd4 g4 8.Kc5 c3
9.Kd6 c2 10.e7 c1Q 11.e8Q Qf4+ 12.Kd7 Qxb4 13.Qe6+ Kg5 14.Kc6
  µ  (-1.19)   depth: 21/50   00:07:24  292808kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.exf6+ Kxf6 4.g5+ Kxg5 5.fxe6 Kf6 6.d5 g5 7.Kd4 g4 8.Kc5 c3
9.Kd6 c2 10.e7 c1Q 11.e8Q Qf4+ 12.Kd7 Qxb4 13.Qe6+ Kg7 14.Qe5+ Kf7 15.Kc6
  µ  (-1.12)   depth: 22/54   00:15:03  593380kN
1.Ke3 Ke7 2.Ke4 g6 3.exf6+ Kxf6 4.g5+ Kxg5 5.fxe6 Kf6 6.d5 g5 7.Kd4 g4 8.Kc5 c3
9.Kd6 c2 10.e7 c1Q 11.e8Q Qf4+ 12.Kd7 Qxb4 13.Qe6+ Kg7 14.Qe5+ Kg6 15.Qe6+ Kg5
16.Kc6
  µ  (-1.19)   depth: 23/56   00:30:11  1181243kN

(Mahamood, home 27.12.2001)
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honestly I dont think it has any clue.

pavs






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