Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:49:16 03/03/02
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On March 03, 2002 at 15:44:41, Jon Dart wrote: >Recently Arasan had this position against Gandalf on ICC: > >[D] 8/p5kp/1pBnP1p1/8/8/P3P3/4K2P/8 w - - > >Arasan played e7? here and lost. It had limited time here: it switches >off e7 pretty quickly, and prefers Kd3, but continues to give White a >positive score. > >On the other hand, a variety of other programs I've tried (Crafty, >Hiarcs 7, and Pharaon) play e4 here with a negative score for White. > >I'd be interested in any comments on this endgame. e7? is a loser, >but is Black still better if White avoids this? > >--Jon Here's what Chessmaster says: Time Depth Score Positions Moves 0:00 5/6 0.29 11360 1.e4 Kf8 2.Kd3 Ke7 3.e5 Nf5 0:00 6/7 0.09 24852 1.e4 Kf8 2.Kd3 Ke7 3.e5 Nf5 4.Bd7 Ng7 0:00 7/8 0.22 59680 1.e4 Kf8 2.Kd3 Ke7 3.Bd7 b5 4.e5 Nc4 0:01 8/9 -0.26 156594 1.e4 Kf8 2.Kd3 Ke7 3.e5 Nf5 4.Bd7 Ng7 5.Ke4 Nxe6 0:02 8/9 -0.15 291263 1.Kd3 Kf6 2.Bd7 Ke7 3.Kd4 b5 4.Kd5 a5 5.Bc6 0:06 9/10 -0.12 658367 1.Kd3 Kf6 2.Bd7 Ke7 3.Kd4 Nf5+ 4.Ke4 b5 5.Ke5 Nxe3 6.Bxb5 Ng4+ 7.Kf4 Nxh2 0:12 10/11 -0.15 1465984 1.Kd3 Kf6 2.Bd7 Ke7 3.Kd4 h6 4.Kd5 b5 5.e4 a5 6.e5 0:25 11/12 -0.18 3282649 1.Kd3 Kf6 2.Bd7 Ke7 3.Kd4 Nf5+ 4.Ke4 h6 5.a4 a6 6.h3 b5 7.axb5 Nd6+ 8.Kd5 axb5 1:00 12/13 -0.18 7869328 1.Kd3 Kf6 2.Bd7 Ke7 3.Kd4 Nf5+ 4.Ke4 h6 5.a4 a6 6.h3 b5 7.axb5 Nd6+ 8.Kd5 axb5 2:16 13/14 -0.28 17722817 1.Kd3 Kf6 2.Bd7 Ke7 3.Kd4 Nf5+ 4.Ke4 a6 5.a4 b5 6.axb5 axb5 7.Kd3 Nd6 8.Kc3 h6 5:56 14/15 -0.30 46635573 1.Kd3 Kf6 2.Bd7 Ke7 3.Kd4 Nf5+ 4.Ke4 a6 5.a4 b5 6.axb5 axb5 7.Kd3 Nd6 8.Kc3 h6 9.Kb4 jm
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