Author: Yuriy Lyapko
Date: 22:47:05 01/10/06
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On January 10, 2006 at 03:32:03, Majd Al-Ansari wrote: >Actually after further analysing this position I have come to the conclusion >that it is indeed a DRAW after Kf5! instead of Kh5? So the human intuition was >correct ;} Black can draw this quite easily by waiting for white to commit. If >white commits white manages to gobble up the white pawns in time for a Queen >just as white pawns. > >After Kf5! > >[D]8/5p2/8/pp3k2/3P3p/7K/PP4P1/8 w - - 0 2 > >Now if Kxh4 then Ke4! is a draw. This is confirmed by Fritz 9, Fruit 2.2.1 and >Shredder 9.1 all in less than 5 seconds .... The only engine giving a heavy plus >for white after reasonable amount of time is Rybka (I stopped Rybka analysis >engine after 10 min with Rybka showing +2.56 for white). Obviously Rybka needs >some more endgame knowledge in these kind of simplified pawn endgames. Try to deny EGTB access in all those 3 engines (or simply hide KPPKQ tablebase) and you will see, that all of them are same blind as Rybka... Best regards, George
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