Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 23:46:02 01/03/02
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On January 04, 2002 at 02:16:15, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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. That's probably what it was then. Seemed obvious to me, but if it isn't obvious, then it's probably just bad intuition. >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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