Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 07:59:50 10/19/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 10:25:31, Terry Ripple wrote: >On October 19, 2002 at 10:11:45, Geo Disher wrote: > >>My Fritz 6 on a 2.4ghz machine thought RxE8 was the best move so it may not have >>been the best but it was respectible. Also the evaluation showed that White was >>still better +.38 so it made since for Fritz team to accept draw with this type >>of eval. >> >>On October 19, 2002 at 10:02:00, Terry Ripple wrote: >> >>>Why on earth would a World Champion make this move Rxe8? which is somewhat an >>>inaccuracybecause of his isolated pawn? >>> >>>Plus why would Fritz accept this draw offer?? Interesting!! >>> >>>Terry >-------------- > >It is well known among strong chess players that you should never voluntarly >exchange down pieces when you have an isolated pawn weakness because that pawn >will become increasingly weaker with more pieces off the board and thus the pawn >will be captured in the endgame! > >Regards, > Terry At the ICC site, GM Pigzilla noted that having an IQP in the endgame is not necessarily losing. Also, the advice against trading down with an IQP applies only if the IQP cannot be exchanged off. Bob D.
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