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Subject: Re: Why I dont like pawn endgames

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 02:11:40 10/06/02

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On October 06, 2002 at 03:35:28, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 05, 2002 at 17:37:08, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On October 05, 2002 at 17:34:53, Peter Berger wrote:
>>
>>>This one takes Yace running in the background on P4 2200 about 90 seconds to >see there is a problem, and it needs ply 21.
>>>Getting this with static eval sounds risky - what should the rule be?
>>
>>Considering that this kind of positions seems to occur rather frequently,
>>I'm thinking of: 'assume all pawn endgames are lost' ;)
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>It means that you are going to miss win by trading to a pawn endgame.
>I do not think that these kind of positions occur rather frequently.

What a lot of people seem to forget is that with 1M nodes/sec any strange
position will occur quite often in search.

Tony

>
>Uri



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