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Subject: Re: Crafty endgame position

Author: Oliver Roese

Date: 08:07:14 04/07/02

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On April 07, 2002 at 10:41:27, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:

>[D] 1b6/8/8/7p/6k1/6P1/8/6K1 w - - 0 1
>
>Crafty, without tablebases, scores this as about -4.5 for white. Shouldn't the
>score be 0.0?

A score of 0.0 would be correct.
I don't if the score _should_ be 0.0 since minor abbrevations from known
drawn positions could make sometimes a big difference.
In this position however black can force white to play g4, but after
hxg4 white is stalemate.

Oliver



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