Author: James Robertson
Date: 19:09:33 10/21/98
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On October 21, 1998 at 07:06:41, Kai Lübke wrote: >On October 20, 1998 at 23:11:24, James Robertson wrote: > >>>I do not understand the decision of draw. >>>I think that white has a positional advantage. >>>Maybe white cannot win but you cannot be sure about it in this position. >>> >>>Uri >> >>I agree completely; White has a definate pull, with a passed pawn, bishop pair, >>and pinning black's knight. Really, I think you should play this one out. >> >>James > >I will consider this. Rebel had +0,00 for some time while Virtual insisted on >+0,80 to +1,00. >Usually I am right in my evaluation of such positions, but I had a similar >situation yesterday when Rebel vs. Fritz looked even more like a draw, yet Fritz >managed to win. >So probably my feeling has left me. :) >I will give this some thoughts and probably continue the game sometime next week >(fortunately, I keep track of the reflection times at the end of each game, so >it's going to be easy to play on). > >Thanks to both of you for your comments, > >--- >Shep I played the game with Crafty on both sides. Crafty was convinced it was +1.5 to +1.6, yet it looked like White had made no progress after about 20 moves..... I wonder when the 50 move rule would have forced white to do something drastic (maybe a king march?) to avoid the draw, and possibly step into a winning position. James
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