Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 04:09:26 10/18/02
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Thanks, Mig, because you're the only one reporting from Bahrain. Yesterday I read that you would do some research on game 6 with the machine, what was confirmed by Frans Morsch. Is it still a real plan? On ChessBase Germany I read that today some masters would play Fritz (Bahrain). Do you think that there is enough time left for the research? Then another point. Since I've read you for a long time, I miss the old Mig with the continual tongue in cheek reports. I mean, if the Bahrain event can't cause you to laugh out loud, then what must happen? Where is the sophisticated Mig? Sorry, if I missed something, business contracts and such. In short,I wished that you would give us reports on basic reality and not on realities influenced by surface PR. If you agree I take your cat for a whole week into my custody - in exchange! Rolf Tueschen On October 18, 2002 at 04:43:26, Mig Greengard wrote: >I know this is the CCC and not a CC, but we already know that engines don't find >a win or the best defense because their evaluation of several of the endgames is >completely wrong. In what you post white has many chances to simply capture on >b5, giving up a rook for the black knight and b-pawn for a dead drawn rook vs >queen fortress position. The engines will never do this because they think the >queen vs rook position is wonderful for black, with evals of +4 or higher. But >this is the simplest draw of the many possible. > >The only variations of interest are those than can refute these defensive >concepts: > >1. Giving up a rook for knight and pawn for a fortress. >2. Giving up both rooks for queen and pawn for a drawn f+g pawns vs N+h-pawn >endgame. >3. Giving up a rook for both b-pawns for a drawn R vs R+N endgame. > >Number three is the only one that seems to offer any chances for a black win >right now. But several GMs have looked at that ending in detail and have had no >success in winning it. According to Keene, he played an almost identical ending >with Mednis over three days (adjournments) and never won it. > >There may exist some fantastical lines with an attack on the white king using >the b-pawn as bait, or other possibilities with the queen still on the board, >but this seems unlikely at this point. > >Saludos, Mig
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