Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 23:16:15 01/03/02
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It's not obvious and I'm an NM. If you can reliably tell this is a win at a glance then you're a very fine endgame player. You could give me lessons. I think if anything the program analysis you furnish shows it is not simple and that this ending can only be evaluated properly with concrete analysis. Of course, you can make claims to the contrary, since after all, it helps you a lot that this ending appears to be a win, but that does not make your claim that this ending can be correctly evaluated at a glance reasonable. Personally, I think you had the intuition that this is a win and you confirmed your intuition with the help of computer analysis before making your claim. Beware, if intuition were everything it was cracked up to be, there would be no need to play slow chess. We would all only play blitz, since calculation would be superfluous when we have intuition to guide us. Clearly, chess is not that simple. Intuition, is useful, but you should not rely on it in this sort of position. I too had the intuition that this position was favorable to black and moreover that 1.Kd4 was Whites best chance, but to extrapolate more from this and declare that this position can evaluated at a glance as a win is unwarranted and surely an error. That's my endgame lesson to you.
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