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Subject: Re: Behting position

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 00:57:38 09/05/98

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On September 03, 1998 at 10:00:27, blass uri wrote:

>
>On September 03, 1998 at 09:09:45, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>
>>>Mine doesn't find this.  I sacrifice some of the freakish cases.
>>
>>This is not such a freakish case. There are hundreds of games with King+Queen
>>vs. King+pawns. An example among many:
>>
>>Benko-Byrne, 1958
>>7K/3P1P2/8/7P/8/8/5P2/kq6 b - - 0 62
>
>The question is not the number of games with king+ queen vs king+pawns
>but the number of games you need to find an idea based on a zungzang
>when there is no threat and the side to play lose because it must play.
>
>Uri

This happens reasonably frequently in low-material endings (for instance consult
John Nunn's Secrets of Minor Piece Endings)... fortunately for the null-moves
tablebases cover off this section of chess.

Dave Gomboc



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