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Subject: Re: Endgame position

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:00:33 03/26/04

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On March 26, 2004 at 23:44:35, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 26, 2004 at 17:59:54, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>  The following came up in a 40/10/0 match between my program against crafty
>>19.3.
>>
>>crafty says black is about 2.3 up , while mine is giving almost even score
>>(-0.32 actually).
>>What is the actual status of this position ?
>>Completely won for white ? draw ? loss ?
>>The game is still going on , but the evals have been stabilised around this for
>>sometime now ...
>>
>>Regards
>>Mridul
>>
>>[D]2bb4/2p5/1pPp4/pP1PkP2/P5K1/6P1/2B5/8 b - - 0 62
>
>Forget the computers.  They are counting wood, and they are wrong.
>
>It's an obvious draw.

Now that I have examined ChessMaster's line, I must swallow my words.
I still think it's a draw, but I am not sure of it.



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