Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 23:54:43 08/24/04
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On August 24, 2004 at 20:16:36, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >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 Why computer? But if you want to analyse this with a computer you have to pick the right engine, eg. an engine that can keep the hashscore when you go back and forth. Yace is such an engine you can try. Else, this position together with many of its friends are analyzed in Averbakh's book on pawn-endings. I'm not at home to control but I think there was at least another move beside Ke2 that should win too. Maybe someone with the updated version from Convecta (on CD) could confirm this, eg. if there is anything changed in his analyses for this position. Odd Gunnar
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