Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:56:13 01/22/02
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On January 22, 2002 at 10:40:33, James T. Walker wrote: >[D]B7/5pk1/6p1/7p/7P/8/4K3/8 b - - 0 1 > >In this position Junior 7 played 60.....f5 ?? and lost this ending. This was >done with access to all 3/4/5 man tablebases. I'm an idiot and I can see about >3 ways to draw this ending without tablebases. >By the way, what's up with Chessbase? If you ask Junior 7 to copy the position, >this is what you get: "wKe2,Ba8,Ph4/bKg7,Pf7,g6,h5" Have they never heard of >FEN over there? Who in the hell uses this kind of nonsense to describe a >position??????? How could it possibly lose this as black? Even if it just gives up all the pawns, white has the wrong bishop if my eyes are not playing tricks on me. It would seem that playing g6 when black can't recapture if white takes would be the only way to lose, turning that worthless rook pawn into a knight pawn that can win.
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