Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 05:33:12 03/21/03
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Hi Uri! On March 21, 2003 at 07:37:07, Uri Blass wrote: // ... >I am talking about endgames >Here is a diagram >The only advantage of black is that the black king is in the a file and not in >the h file(you can see that the a and b files are better for the king than the g >and h files because all the pawns are in a-b files. > >A good program should see that black is better by static evaluation. > >[D]7K/8/pp6/8/8/PP6/8/k7 w - - 0 1 A pattern which I use for this kind of positions: if in a pawn endgame all pawns are on the queen side (or on the king side) of the board then I give a penalty for a king which is not on the same side of the board. Greetings, Steffen.
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