Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 17:02:59 07/27/99
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On July 27, 1999 at 19:28:17, Dave Gomboc wrote: >It's not a matter of swindling at all. It's a matter of playing moves that make >the opponent's task difficult. This is _extremely_ important. See Jose's post >for more on that. If Crafty knew (as Bob says it will soon) that the majority >will create an outside passer, it would have preferred to drop its b-pawn and >make White work harder for the win. Crafty may also not have played ...Qe5, >leading to the position that I posted. The concrete example to back this up is the position before that one I posted. Black played ...Qc3-e5, allowing me to at least pick up the b-pawn. Crafty flips a lot between ...Qe5 and ...h6. As I write this, it's on depth 14, and ...Qe5 is preferred. Even the main line after ...h6 has ...Qe5 being played on Black's next move, so Crafty would lose this position in practice. But moves like ...h6 and ...Kf7 don't drop anything, and White still has his work cut out for him to win this ending (before a bad ...Qe5.) I would play it out for sure, but I don't even know if it is a theoretical win. Dave
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