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Subject: Re: Another great article by John Nunn

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 07:42:32 09/01/05

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On September 01, 2005 at 10:14:31, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On September 01, 2005 at 10:01:02, Gilles Garrigues wrote:
>
>>I strongly recommend that anyone interested in endgame analysis with tablebases
>>reads the Doc's article in New in Chess last issue: "Recent advances in endgame
>>theory". Might be the prelude to a new book.
>>
>>As usual (remember the "Silicon Oracle" article) he made some fascinating
>>discoveries with the help of his computer, his brain and the tools generated by
>>Eugene & Co.
>>
>>The fact that Q+gP+hP versus Q can be drawn in many cases is baffling ! (such as
>>in W: Kh4/Qe4/g5/h5 vs Kh8/Qd7)
>
>You neglected to mention who is on move in the above position.


It probably doesn't matter, since Nunn's article claims that the ending is
drawn, in general.  I found this somewhat comforting since several years ago I
had that ending in a tournament game and was unable to win it.

-Peter



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