Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 21:33:00 03/24/03
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On March 24, 2003 at 21:50:57, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 24, 2003 at 21:17:13, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On March 24, 2003 at 21:10:09, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>>From Amateur-Wildcat, Leo's 2nd div: >>>[D]4K3/7P/6k1/8/8/8/1q6/7Q w - - 0 102 >>> >>>White to move and... draw? Must be a better move here, do TB help? I can't >>>believe it's really a draw. >>> >>>Will >> >>It's a draw -- one of those KQQKQ draws - they are in the minority. >> >>Thanks for sharing - will have to keep that position in mind. I bet many "<2000 >>humans" would resign here. I know I would have. > >Even *knowing* it's a draw, I would still resign. I won't be able to play like >the computer with a tablebase. After 1.h8=Q Qe5+? 2.Kd7 Qd5+ (2...Qf7+ 3.Kd6 +-) 3.Kc7 Qa5+ 4.Kb8 wins if you get too fancy, but something simple like 1...Qb5+ seems to draw easily. I can think of 4 good reasons for not resigning in the diagrammed position: (1) With the White Queens in the corners, this should give Black reason for optimism. (2) Against a human, the onus is on White to prove the win. (3) Against a computer, they don't always play the most testing winning try. They will go for the longest winning try rather than the most challenging. (4) Most importantly, the position is interesting! A chess player should not resign such positions!
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