Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:57:13 03/21/03
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On March 21, 2003 at 08:33:12, Steffen Jakob wrote: Hi Stefan! >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. No doubt that it is productive but it is not an optimal solution because the panelty should be bigger if the pawns are a-b and smaller if the pawns are a-b-c-d and the distance to pawns is also important. [D]k7/8/pppp4/8/8/PPPP4/8/7K w - - 0 1 [D]7K/8/pppp4/8/8/PPPP4/8/k7 w - - 0 1 another point is that it can be relevant also in endgames that are not pawn endgame and I remember a drawn rook endgame from the ssdf games (KRPPP vs KRPPP) when chessmaster6000 lost against Fritz5.32 because it liked it's king in the centre when the pawns of both sides were a-b-c pawns. Uri
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