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Subject: Re: Endgame position

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 23:01:26 03/26/04

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On March 27, 2004 at 00:00:33, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.


This line is interresting, but may be there's even better for black !

[Event ""]
[Site ""]
[Date "2004.3.27"]
[Round ""]
[White "Chessmaster"]
[Black "Vinvin"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[Result "*"]
[Setup "1"]
[FEN "2bb4/2p5/1pPp4/pP1PkP2/P5K1/6P1/2B5/8 b - - 0 1"]

1...Bf6 2.Bb1 Kxd5 3.Kh5 Kc4 4.Kg6 Bd8 5.Bc2 d5 6.g4 d4 7.g5 d3 8.Bd1
Kb4 9.f6 Be6 10.Kg7 Bb3 11.Bf3 Kxa4 *




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