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Subject: Re: king and pawns ending (2nd position)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:49:51 08/24/02

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On August 25, 2002 at 00:46:57, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 23, 2002 at 09:35:40, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>[D]7k/7p/8/8/1pP2P2/p7/3K4/8 w - -
>>
>>I would be interested in your static score for the above position and how your
>>search responds.
>>
>>My static score favours white.  The search initially favours black, but then
>>recognises white is winning.
>>
>>(In the actually game the search did not see the danger in time and playing
>>Rxd2+
>>[D]3r3k/7p/8/8/ppP2P2/8/3BK3/8 b - -).
>>
>>
>>Frank
>
>
>The first position is cute.  Crafty thinks black is winning easily.
>Black has a protected passer while white has two passers that the king
>can stop.  It doesn't realize that when the king stops one, the other
>runs.  It takes 3 seconds on mhy PIII/750 to fail low and see white is
>winning +5 or more...


I missed the second position.  I tried it and Crafty immediately liked the
RxB capture but it gave up at 3 seconds on my PIII/750 and
switched to Rb8 which is probably good enough to win outright.



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