Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:06:41 07/27/99
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On July 27, 1999 at 14:07:22, Dave Gomboc wrote: >Last night I reached the following position as White in the blitz portion of a >game/30: > >White: Kg2, Qd5, pawns on b3, f2, g3, h4. >Black: Kf6, Qe5, pawns on b4, g7, h7. >White to move. > >I played 43. Qc6+, and my opponent blundered with 43...Qe6?? I went on to win >the pawn ending after 44. Qxe6+ Kxe6 45. Kf3. > >Flipping through the game with Crafty, I noticed that it also liked 43...Qe6. >In fact, it holds this move until at least depth=16. (I didn't let it analyze >further, but really, this should be seen at depth far less than 16.) It clearly >doesn't realize just how winning White's position is after the queen trade. > >Another test position for Bob's collection? > >Dave It will understand this before long. It already understands 'outside passed pawns' quite well... but at present, it doesn't understand that pawn majority turns into outside passer later on.
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