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Subject: Re: the move that caused the win to be a draw

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:14:40 01/22/02

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On January 22, 2002 at 02:51:27, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On January 21, 2002 at 23:17:13, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 21, 2002 at 22:05:39, K. Burcham wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>Ke5 is definitely a bad move.  Crafty finds Kc6 in less than one minute.
>>
>
>Not without TB's it doesn't :)
>
>I would really like to know if this can be solved with some simple and generally
>useful eval term. I don't think it is any accomplishment to find this with TB's.
>But without? I am sure Tiger and Fritz can find it, but can amateurs? I think it
>makes a great test position.
>
>/David

It can be solved if you evaluate KRP vs KR correctly.

If the rook of the stronger side is behind the pawn and the king of the stronger
side is closer to the queening square then the king of the opponent it is
usually a win for the stronger side and it should be evaluated as better than a
lot of KRPP vs KR positions.

Uri



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