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Subject: Re: Can any program evaluate this ending correctly?

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 05:28:08 07/13/05

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On July 13, 2005 at 08:17:57, Richard Pijl wrote:

>On July 13, 2005 at 06:17:20, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>On July 13, 2005 at 04:07:47, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>[D] 8/6k1/1P3p2/5P2/8/5b2/7K/8 w - - 0 80
>>>
>>>It's 3am and I'm certainly tired enough to have missed something subtle, but I
>>>think this is a very simple draw for White.  I'd like to know if there is any
>>>engine that can see this *without* tablebases.
>>>
>>>Oh, and if you do have this 6-piece tablebase, could you please confirm that it
>>>is a draw?  :)
>>>
>>>-Peter
>>
>>Why can't Black do the following plan?
>>1) Put his K on d6.
>>2) Tempo with his bishop to gain e5 for his K.
>>3) Tempo with his bishop to win the f5 pawn with his K.
>>4) Queen the f-pawn tempoing with his B as needed.
>
>The white king allows access to e5 as he cannot stop it anyway. Instead, the
>whiteking will defend the pawn from g6, where it go to from h6 or h5 whenever
>black's king accesses e5. The bishop cannot be used to chase the king away as
>the white pawn will promote in that case.
>Richard.

Black plays Ke5
White plays Kg6
Black plays B somewhere
White plays K somewhere
Black plays Kxf5
White plays...



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