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Subject: Re: Why I dont like pawn endgames

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 03:03:49 10/06/02

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On October 06, 2002 at 02:50:50, martin fierz wrote:

>On October 05, 2002 at 20:09:53, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On October 05, 2002 at 17:10:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>[D]8/1p5p/4k3/p3p1PP/2P5/8/PP6/5K2 b - - 0 44
>>>
>>>This is 1-0
>>>
>>>How long to see it? Who has the advantage in the static
>>>eval?
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>CT 15 only needs 10 seconds on my machine (1.7Ghz) that there is a problem.
>
>the point GCP makes is that "only" 10 seconds is much too long if you are in a
>position deciding whether to trade into this pawn ending or not. to answer that
>question right, your static eval would have to recognize that white has a
>potential passer on the queenside (easy) and it would have to understand whether
>this passer is dangerous or not (very hard!)
>
>aloha
>  martin
>

one could try this:
white has a potential passer on the queenside _and_ on the kingside! Black has
one passer in the center. No there must be some kind of formula (here the magic
occurs) to detect if the white king can stop the black passer and if the black
king can stop both white passers.



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