Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:32:01 10/09/05
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On October 09, 2005 at 18:10:59, Peter Berger wrote: >[D]8/1k4p1/8/5p1p/PPP5/6K1/8/8 w - - > >This position was pointed out to me by Chandler Yergin who did some work on it . >It is well possible that it has been discussed at CCC before, as it is close to >a very famous one. > >It is quite accessible for humans IMHO, but surprisingly difficult for some of >the engines that are well-known to rock in pawn endgames, like Yace and >Shredder. Fun starts when the engines go deep. It looks like one of the very few >pawn endgames that is difficult for engines without simply transposing into a >queen+ pawns endgame soon. > >With backsolving it is easy to get convincing scores, but to me it is not clear >what makes it so hard to judge for engines from the starting position. > >Have fun. > >Peter One of many resulting positions from playing "wild-7" on ICC. :) There was a detailed analysis of this particular ending in an older chess life magazine... Think it was Benko but I am not 100% sure...
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