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Subject: Re: Hard endgame position

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 23:58:49 02/29/00

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On March 01, 2000 at 01:37:17, Janos Keinrath wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Yesterday I saw an intresting endgame position on ICC.
>
>[D]8/8/6k1/3p4/3P4/2P2PKp/pB4b1/8 b - -
>
>This is the final position of a blitz game played by Amateur
>with black. The game ended with rep. draw, but I feel black somehow
>can win. Could you check the position? What is the winning plan?

Crafty likes Kf5 from the get-go, but the evaluation does not climb over one
pawn until ply 19.  I'd be surprised if programs see a win at normal game-type
time controls (other than 'postal' games).



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