Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:31:39 01/14/02
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What you said below is the reason I think the second position you posted is such a great puzzle for people as well as computers. Forget about the first position -- it's too easy and intuitive. The second position is a great new chess puzzle that you can claim to have composed! On January 12, 2002 at 21:20:30, Brian Katz wrote: >>>[D]8/5p2/1kp5/p1p5/P1PpKPPp/1P5P/8/8 b - - 0 1 >With the Black King on the b- file, it seems that the best Black can achieve is >a won Queen vs. Pawn ending. However, with Black King on the c-file or closer, >Black wins very easily, and the programs find the winning 1...f5+ very fast. >Fritz 7 doesn't select 1...f5+ right away when the Black King is on b6. It takes >a good number of minutes before it realizes that it is winning. Deep Fritz and >Fritz 6 find the move as winning much faster than Fritz 7a. This is on a 350 >MHz Pent ll. >I find the position to be fascinating. With the Black King on g7, I found the >win quite fast during the game that I had played. It really is a pretty simple >position. CRITICAL SQUARES is what it is all about. The position is pretty >straight forward. However, with the Black King on b6, it does seem like it is >way out of the game. Imagine your opponent face in a position like that, >thinking the worst he could get as White would be a draw. AND THEN!! suddenly >1...f5+ !!!!!
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