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Subject: Re: A simple pawn endgame

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 15:49:41 10/09/05

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On October 09, 2005 at 18:35:00, Peter Berger wrote:

>On October 09, 2005 at 18:25:37, chandler yergin wrote:
>
>>They might have fun with the Starting Position too.
>>
>>;)
>>
>>[D]4k3/5ppp/8/8/8/8/PPP5/3K4 w -
>
>Your position is much more interesting I think. The "Starting position" has been
>discussed and solved by computers quite some time ago. It is clearly not trivial
>and was shown to be a win for white in what you would call a brute force way.

Yes, and Ruben Fine in 1947 without any assistance from Computers
found it also.
Amazing no?



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