Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 01:17:08 10/20/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 20:07:17, martin fierz wrote: >On October 19, 2002 at 17:43:07, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On October 19, 2002 at 12:44:23, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>Resigning in a drawn position is something that I do not expect myself to do and >>>the same for losing a piece by simple tactic in the previous game. >>> >>>Uri >> >>I think Kramnik was going to go under the wheels even if he didn't blunder his >>knight. Maybe the position was theoretically drawn, but it's hard for me to >>imagine how a (mere :-) human could prevent Fritz from steadily advancing its >>passed pawn. > >in the game kramnik blundered a knight fritz had no passed pawn. > >> I think that ending would be about as tough for a human as one can >>find. >no way. i played it as black against fritz 7 on my admittedly slow laptop and >drew easily at 2/40. fritz has no idea what to play there... > >aloha > martin >>Dave Am I thinking of the wrong game? There was a game where one side had an extra b-pawn, the other side has an extra pawn on the kingside that didn't look very useful. My impression was that the passed pawn would be very hard to stop in a Q+N ending, particularly since computers are better with Qs and with Ns that people. :-) Dave
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