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Subject: Re: Does anyone's program see that this is dead lost?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 07:51:37 01/04/02

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On January 04, 2002 at 02:46:02, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

If nobody else will, then I will agree with you Dann ;)
Seems the white rook has two jobs to do, stop the black pawn _and_ prevent the
black king from joining the battle by moving to g4.
The white king is just too far away to come to the rescue, and the white pawn is
dead meat anyway.

Just a quick glance you understand...;)

-S.




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