Kingsrow Help

[AKA]

I need Kingsrow to tell me if this position is a win for white or a draw please.

9-14 22-18 5-9 25-22 12-16 24-20 10-15 27-24 19-15 24-15 16-19 23-16 14-23 26-19 11-18-25 29-22 8-12*

[Ed Gilbert]

Hi Igor,

This position still has 24 pieces on the board and is too early in the game for kingsrow to know the result with any certainty from a single search. A search to depth 29 gives a score of -16. I can put the opening book generator to work on it, and perhaps after a few hundred searches it will be able to propagate a reliable result back from more advanced positions.

-- Ed

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Igor, white has better position after this pitch, but it is a draw, if plays correctly by both sides. I played this on Internet at the end of 90's, but due to the weaknesses of position after pitch, later decided do npt use it.

All white needs to do - play 22-18 and later 31-26. After then red has very delicate man down draw. Recently several players tried with me this line on Kurnik, and I won with white all games, except ones where my flag failed

This line os covered in SIXTH
Alex

[Ed Gilbert]

Alex, after reading your comment about a pitch, I looked again and see that there is an error in the move list given by Igor. When I pasted the list into CheckerBoard and played forward to the end, it stopped at 27-24 because the next move in the list, 19-15, is not legal. Igor, what move did you want after that?

-- Ed

[Ed Gilbert]

It looks like my first attempt to paste the game into CheckerBoard didn't work because the 'from' and 'to' squares were transposed in black's 5th move. It should read "15-19". KingsRow agrees with Alex, the position is a draw.

[AKA]

thank you much.