Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:08:08 03/10/02
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On March 10, 2002 at 12:01:21, Guido wrote: >Some time ago I discussed on CCC about this subject with Bob Hyatt and he very >kindly demonstrated to me that the right solution to this problem consisted in >the duplication of the positions where a pawn can be ep-captured, so a good >solution for this goal can be the use of the first (a1...h1) and the last rank >(a8...h8) of the chessboard, where pawns are not normally allowed. > >For the moment in my program I preferred not to adopt this solution, generating >tablebases without ep capture, so my present question is: > >Does someone know if exist positions in the following endings: KPKP, KXPKP (X = >Q, R, B, N), KPPKP where results are different if ep capture is or not >considered? yes there are [D]1K6/2p5/8/1P6/8/8/8/k7 b - - 0 1 c5 is a draw when white cannot reply bxc6 Uri
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