Author: Uri Blass
Date: 21:57:04 08/23/05
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On August 24, 2005 at 00:54:56, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 23, 2005 at 22:20:24, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>in a blitz game vs Homer, Zappa gives all pieces and thought it has won: >> >>[D]8/2p2kp1/1p2p3/2p1p1PP/2P1P3/1r2BK2/4R3/3n4 b - - >> >>Zappa as black played here directly 51...Rxe3+ with +4.57, but its draw ! > >I do not think that it is a bug. > >engines are not perfect and this is what happens when programmers try to >implement human knowledge. > >I am sure that a lot of humans will play the same blunder at blitz time control. > >Humans know that pawn endgame with 1 pawns advantage are in most cases won for >the side with the advantage so they can easily imagine that 2 pawns advantage >has to be a simple win and finding that the idea that c6 and b5 to create passed >pawn does not work because white does not have to capture b5 may be too much for >them in blitz game. > >Uri In a second thought surprisingly it is a draw even if white allow black to create 2 passed pawns by capturing b5 because black can do nothing. Uri
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