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Subject: Re: Why I dont like pawn endgames

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:11:12 10/06/02

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On October 06, 2002 at 05:11:40, Tony Werten wrote:

>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

It may appear in the search but usually it is not going to be relevant because
99.9% of the lines in the search are irrelevant.

Uri



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