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Subject: Re: Ooops! Re: Kc2 is a winning move.

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 03:41:55 03/05/99

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On March 05, 1999 at 05:07:40, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>>>>>>>Jouni, position #1 is a draw. Kc2 doesn´t win. I also noticed that other
>>>>>>>positions have more than one solution.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Greetings,
>>>>>>>Steffen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This is the relevant position
>>>>>>5k2/8/8/8/8/2P5/8/3K4 w - - 0 1
>>>>>>Kc2 is winning.
>>>>>>For example 1.Kc2 Ke7 2.Kb3 Kd6 3.Kb4 Kc6 4.Kc4
>>
>>>>The position that Jouni and Uri gave is a win -- mate in 22.
>>>>
>>>>Maybe you got the FEN wrong in your file, Steffen?
>>>
>>>Oooops, yes, it was a copy-paste bug!
>>>I had
>>>
>>>k2/8/8/8/8/2P5/8/3K4 w
>>>
>>>instead of
>>>
>>>5k2/8/8/8/8/2P5/8/3K4 w
>>>
>>>I am sorry!
>>>
>>Hehe, I had this too. But it would be interesting to know how the position was
>>interpreted with k2 instead of 5k2...
>
>Hi Harald,
>
>I had the king on a8, which is indeed a draw :-) The EPD file on my WWW-Page is
>now corrected.
>Steffen.

Ka8...and your program didn't complain about the 2 instead of a needed 7? :-)



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