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Subject: Re: Zappa endgame bug

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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