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Subject: Re: amazing endgame (5 pawns for rook, losing)

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:56:08 11/12/02

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On November 12, 2002 at 14:11:17, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>Aegis is : Crafty 19.1 (4 cpus) - Hyperthreading enabled Dual Xeon 2.2 Ghz
>ajop  is : chesstiger 15 amd xp1800+
>
>[d]Q4R2/6pk/p3p2p/1p6/2p5/8/PP1rq3/R5K1 b - - 0 36

Black can play Rxb2, so it's 6 pawns for a rook.

My thing initially wants the perpetual, but later goes for Rxb2
and trading pieces.

Tricky position. In the Dutch open of last year Fritz traded
a rook for 5 pawns and lost. But this kind of position is
very tricky.

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GCP



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