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Subject: Re: K blunders..does this change the game significantly?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 10:13:35 10/13/02

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On October 13, 2002 at 13:02:20, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>It doesn't. K was already busted. Nobody survives an ending with one pawn less
>againts a top program, except in some very rares technical cases.
>Fernando

i'm not so sure! 4-3 on the same wing is typically an example where the
pawn-down side has good drawing chances. i think a pure Q-ending would be a draw
there, while the pure N-ending could be a loss. but fritz would have had to show
some technique here.

aloha
  martin



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