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Subject: Re: Pandolfini's Endgame Course

Author: Daniel Jackson

Date: 06:02:35 10/08/04

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On October 08, 2004 at 08:54:17, Rick Bischoff wrote:

>On October 08, 2004 at 08:49:58, Rick Bischoff wrote:
>
>>Does anybody have a list of errors in this book?
>>
>>I am trying to test my engine on these simple end games.. but on this position:
>>
>>[D]8/8/8/8/4N3/1k6/1p6/7K w - - 0 1
>>
>>It says white to move and draw with Nd2+ Kc2 Nc4 b1/Q Na3+ Kc1 Nxb1 Kxb1, but
>>crafty with EGTB shows a forced win for black:
>>
>
>of course the problem here is that b1/Q is with check-- if the king is off the
>first rank pandolfini's solution is correct.  Nevertheless, still an error

It's obvious that the King was placed on the wrong square, I've seen misprints
like this before. Heck, I've seen worse than this...a King missing altogether..
Bruce isn't responsible for the King misplacement.




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