Author: Peter Berger
Date: 12:18:44 04/07/04
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On April 07, 2004 at 14:54:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>Deeper search reveals more:
>
> 24 1:59 +1 3. Kf1!!
> 24 2:08 +3 3. Kf1!!
> 24 2:10 +M 3. Kf1!!
> 24 5:32 Mat29 3. Kf1 Ke6 4. Ke2 f5 5. Kxe3 Kd5 6.
> f4 g4 7. c6 Kxc6 8. Kd4 Kd6 9. g3 Ke6
> 10. Kc5 Ke7 11. Kd5 Kf6 12. Kd6 <HT>
>
>So it seems you were correct... I am still looking at it from a human
>perspective to see how white wins...
>
>This is one of those subtle cases where white can immediately hit a 6 piece
>ending and draw, but some subtle delay lets white reach a different (and won) 6
>piece ending it seems..
I really think you just got confused here because of Crafty's output - the
initial position is really easy to evaluate for a human IMHO. The mainline until
7. f4 is forced and then it's clear that you win.
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "me"]
[Black "Shredder 8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "8/5p2/6k1/2P1Q1p1/5p2/4qP2/6PK/8 w - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "73"]
1. Qxe3 {0} fxe3 {0.01/18 13} 2. Kg1 {1} Kf5 {0.01/17 9} 3. Kf1 {2} Ke5 {
0.01/18 9} 4. Ke2 {1} f5 {1.72/19 31} 5. Kxe3 {2} Kd5 {1.72/18 32} 6. c6 {2}
Kxc6 {#25/47 18} 7. f4 {2} g4 {#24/55 0} 8. Kd4 {5} Kd6 {#23/59 2} 9. Kc4 {
(g3) 1} g3 {#25/48 18} 10. Kd4 {2} Ke6 {#24/51 6} 11. Kc5 {1} Kf7 {#23/67 4}
12. Kd5 {(Kd6) 2} Kf6 {#22/72 1} 13. Kd6 {1} Kf7 {#21/78 3} 14. Ke5 {1} Kg6 {
#20/83 2} 15. Ke6 {1} Kg7 {#19/84 3} 16. Kxf5 {1} Kf7 {#19/1 0} 17. Kg4 {19}
Kg6 {#18/1 0} 18. Kxg3 {(f5+) 1} Kf5 {#17/1 0}
etc.
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