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Subject: Re: Knight vs Bishop with pawns ending

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 02:18:58 01/11/99

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On January 10, 1999 at 11:25:14, Matthew Herman wrote:

>I was using the epd from the position posted, not the game..

Yes, that is what I posted to Michael Fitch, that you were using my epd
position.

>I didn't say the
>knight COULDN't get to f6 but I said it would take some work..

That's correct, sorry I used the word "couldn't".
Your quote is below ...

"By the way .. in this position it isn't so easy to get the knight to f6 .. (the
Bishop goes to f5 and the k to e7 and it is really hard to penetrate from
there."

>as obviously to
>get to a dark color square it most goto a light square and obviously the bishop
>might be able to stop that.. it probably wont be able to but it might..
>my
>contention is that it is NOT a piece of cake.. but it does take accurate moves.

That is what I was hoping for in giving this position. That without deep
calculating, would some programs give themselves a head start on this position
by implementing knowledge of the strong knight vs weak bishop. Looks like
the author of Phallanx implementing such knowledge. Humans would glance at this
position and I think immediately assess that white has a comfortable edge.




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