Author: Dave
Date: 14:52:43 10/27/98
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> > >NOW here is the interesting rub. My gut feeling is that white has the >better rook and the extra pawn, so he should win. Fritz evaluates the >position as 1.00 in favor of white. But the extra pawn is sitting on >a2 behend the pawn on a3. It turns out that the win is not so easy for >white, and Fritz was not able to win it when playing against itself in >the following game. > >I played several games with fritz at fast time settings from this position. >My conclusion is that the endgame is next to impossible to win for mere >mortals like me, although I am sure that Kasparov or Karpov would find a way. > >After 26. Kd2 ............ Not being skilled in R+P endings and thinking I might learn something I tried this position out using HIARCS 6.0 against itself at three time controls that would give it ELO levels of 2200, 2300 and 2400 respectively. All three games followed quite different paths but all ended in draws after about 20-25 moves. The black rook turned out to be fairly active in all three games.
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