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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