Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 11:59:02 03/27/02
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On March 27, 2002 at 12:07:12, Roy Eassa wrote: >On March 27, 2002 at 09:53:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 27, 2002 at 05:28:28, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>[D]8/B5pp/4k3/P7/6n1/8/P6P/7K b - - 0 41 >>> >>>Crafty as black played Nxh2!!(??). Yes the game ended draw so the move is >>>probably correct, but I doubt, that Crafty's evaluation really understand this. >>>E.g. if white plays a6 then black has no way to a8 square... >>> >>>Crafty 18.14 is clever endgame player, but still I am disappointed, when version >>>17.14 solves 4 positions more in my 40 position endgame test and also 17.14 >>>is on average about 30% faster in all postions! >>> >>>Jouni >> >>It is just using endgame knowledge to go into a forced draw due to bishop >>plus wrong rook pawns... > > >Has it been confirmed 100% that 1...Nxh2 is a draw? The black king can reach the corner where the pawns promote and there is nothing white can do to get him out of there. So 1...Nxh2 is a confirmed 100% draw. (Perhaps white could manage to loos if really wanted to!) Torstein >It DOES look that way to me, but I haven't read a message that showed proof (the >original poster seemed to think that 2.a6 might still win -- has that been >refuted?).
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