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Subject: Re: Shep Championship: Rebel 10 - Virtual II 1/2:1/2

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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