Author: martin fierz
Date: 13:24:11 01/19/02
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On January 19, 2002 at 12:18:50, Scott Gasch wrote: >Nice game by cyberpagno. Not the way I'd like to start CCT4 but we live and >learn. Here are a couple of positions I found interesting from the round 1 >game: > >[D]r5k1/P3pp1p/3p2p1/P7/5P2/8/P4PKP/bN1R4 w - - 1 24 > >Here monsoon's eval is slamming white for bad pawn structure -- 6 isolated pawns >and 5 doubled pawns. The sum of these two terms was approx -2 pawns positional. > I've since scaled it back a bit. i don't think you are doing the right thing - the point about this position is not that the white pawn structure is not bad - it's about the a7-passer which will kill you. just recently somebody posted a position where white won a game by playing NxPa7 in a knight endgame, where black has a knight on c8, and white has two connected passed pawns on a5 and b5, which just run through, because the black king is far away. was that you? if yes, this looks very similar... anyway, you should rather give white a big bonus for his a7 pawn than changing the scoring of the pawn structure - it is really about the most awful thing you can get :-) why is the a7-pawn so dangerous here? 1) your bishop does not control it's promotion square 2) your king is very far away and cannot help cheers martin
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