Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Hard K+P ending position

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 10:12:15 06/30/03

Go up one level in this thread


On June 30, 2003 at 12:22:07, Robin Smith wrote:

>On June 29, 2003 at 15:30:03, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>[D]8/5p1p/8/6k1/8/6P1/5PP1/7K w - -
>>
>>This position was part of a test posted quite some time ago.
>
>What is the original source of this position?
>
>Robin

I don't remember the history, but 6 very hard pawns endgame was given to
Kasparov this is in this suite.
I repost the 6 positions, to see if some still hard for comp now ...

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "pos1"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "6k1/6p1/8/4K1P1/8/7P/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "0"]

*

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "pos2"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "k7/4p3/4p3/8/8/3P1P2/5P2/K7 w - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "0"]

*

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "pos3"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "8/4p3/2kp4/4p3/6K1/5P2/3P4/8 w - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "0"]

*

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "pos4"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "k7/8/1p6/p1p5/2P4K/8/PP6/8 w - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "0"]

*

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "pos5"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "8/8/p7/8/1P6/7p/P4k1P/3K4 w - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "0"]

*

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "pos6"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "8/5p1p/8/6k1/8/6P1/5PP1/7K w - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "0"]

*

[D]6k1/6p1/8/4K1P1/8/7P/8/8 w - -
1.Kf4!


[D]k7/4p3/4p3/8/8/3P1P2/5P2/K7 w - -
1.Kb2!


[D]8/4p3/2kp4/4p3/6K1/5P2/3P4/8 w - -
1.Kg5!


[D]k7/8/1p6/p1p5/2P4K/8/PP6/8 w - -
1.a4!


[D]8/8/p7/8/1P6/7p/P4k1P/3K4 w - -
1.a3!


[D]8/5p1p/8/6k1/8/6P1/5PP1/7K w - -
1.Kh2!




This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.