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Subject: Re: 3 Pawn-Chess. What is the result?

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 17:16:36 08/24/04

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On August 24, 2004 at 18:25:33, Marc Bourzutschky wrote:

>On August 24, 2004 at 17:09:52, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>
>>
>> A known variant of Chess (which is actually just a Chess position), is the 3
>>Pawn-Chess. It has the following position as the start, and white has the move.
>>Does anyone has any idea of what the result must be?
>> I think it should be a draw but with all the zugzwangs and tempos i'm not sure
>>at all. Can anyone let his superior computer with it's superior engine to run
>>some hours to give me some light.........?
>>
>>[D]4k3/5ppp/8/8/8/8/PPP5/3K4 w - - 0 1
>
>This is a famous position, analysis dates back to 1840.  It has been fairly
>clearly established that White wins.
>
>-Marc

Marc -- would like to see the detail, preferably analysis by a computer...

Stuart




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