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Subject: Re: Mr.Hyatt, why cant you fix that?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 06:38:20 01/11/03

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On January 11, 2003 at 07:43:24, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>[D] 4nnk1/8/6b1/4BP2/2N1B1K1/8/8/8 b - - 0 1
>
>I just came over this endgame position with Crafty 19.01 as analysis engine in
>CB-GUI. Crafty suggested 1...Bxf5+ with a score of 0.01.
>1...Bf7 seems to be a simple draw.
>you probably told him 3 pieces against 2 pieces without pawns is draw, but I
>doubt this is a good idea in the endgame BBNK vs. NNK. You might be better
>informed but I would think this endgame is almost always a win and would even
>assume that it is almost always a win within 50 moves.

i guess you are right. BB-N is a win, and it probably isn't too hard for the
stronger side to force the exchange of a knight...

cheers
  martin



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