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Subject: Re: How to draw a won pawn endgame

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 07:18:51 05/15/03

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On May 13, 2003 at 15:18:22, Martin Giepmans wrote:

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>From a game Ruffian - SpiderChess
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[D]8/7p/p2k4/1p4p1/4K1P1/P6P/8/8 b - - 0 50
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>In this position SpiderChess played 50 .. Kc5? (it should have played
>Ke6 Kd4 a5 -+) and thought it was winning.
>
>The game continued:
>51. Kf5 Kc4

as many stated the problem is not 50...Kc5 but the plan of grabbing the pawn
instead of forcing a passer.

The point is that the program prefers to grab a pawn, instead of swapping it to
get the passer, which is a very bad decision.

Again it is matter of greedyness. I guess that if you try to add some value to
the passed pawns you might get the right play by the engine.



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