Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:42:01 08/25/04
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On August 24, 2004 at 20:52:32, Robert Hyatt 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 > > >white wins. Ke2 is a forced win. According to lots of backward analysis with >yace there might be another winning move... but Ke2 wins for certain... BTW, I believe Benko wrote an article on this in "Chess Life" a few years back, calling it "The little game" or something similar. He explained how to win with white. One point is that white's b-pawn never moves until white needs a tempo gain. It is amazing how two pawns (A/C files) can stymy the black king and make it give way. And it is amazing how this game is won by exactly one tempo. If white loses that tempo it becomes a draw. If white loses a second tempo, it becomes a win for black even... Several of us used to play this a lot on ICC (humans) until it became boring.
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