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Subject: Re: pawnendgame kc3 [Both Kc3 and g4 are winning moves]

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 17:47:32 05/09/02

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On May 09, 2002 at 08:59:50, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

g4 Kb4 =

analyse with EGTBs turned on i'd say :)

>On May 09, 2002 at 02:39:13, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>Diep - Crafty
>>
>>[D]8/p1p3p1/7p/1Pk5/P7/1P1K2P1/7P/8 w - - 4 41
>>
>>kc3!!
>>
>>regrettably diep didn't care between kc3 and g4 and went
>>for g4. Kc3 is a clear win IMHO.
>>
>>g4 a simple draw.
>
>In the meantime I have analysed this positition more deeply and came to the
>conlusion that White wins anyway, either with Kc3 or g4. Black is absolutely
>helpless and gets in Zugzwang. And this might also be the reason that the
>evaluation of the chesscomputer programs do not much differ after executing Kc3
>or g4.
>Kurt



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