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Subject: Re: Endgame evaluation

Author: Martin Andersen

Date: 14:49:34 12/14/03

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On December 14, 2003 at 17:30:49, Richard Pijl wrote:

>On December 14, 2003 at 15:18:46, Richard Pijl wrote:
>
>>In a very recent game between Baron and Amateur (time control 45 10) on ICC, the
>>following position occurred:
>>
>>[D]7k/2B2pp1/2n1b3/P2p2Pp/2p4n/4NP2/5K2/5B2 w - - 0 55
>>
>>White is two pawns down, both passers. As compensation, White has a pair of
>>bishops. Understandably, Amateur showed a big plus score (+3.4), however The
>>Baron thought is was almost drawn (-0.34). What do your engines think about
>>this?
>
>Together with Dieter Bürßner we've tried to find a win for Black. We did not
>succeed, but ofcourse we could not examine all lines. Can someone else find a
>winning line?

According to Crafty 19.7 for Linux, Athlon 2400+, black can't hold
on to the c4 and d5 pawns, so it's probably a draw.

Depth:       18      Nodes: 1383063K (781 kn/s)
Score:    -1.21      Time:   1771.82 seconds
55. a6 Bc8 56. a7 Nxa7 57. Nxd5 Nc6 58. Bxc4 Be6 59. f4 Nf5 60. Bd3 h4 61. Ne3
Nfd4 62. f5 Bb3 63. Kg2 Kh7

>>Richard

Martin.



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