Bishop + Pawns Ending RPU 105

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Avatar of Clavius

The position below was reached in Lesson RPU 105.  I chose 1.Bf5 and the comment from the program was that "this would make Black happy" (though without explanation), with the "only" good move being Bc2 according to the program.  I had Deep Shredder 12 on a multi-core Mac analyze and it also chose 1.Bf5 with 1.Bc2 evaluated as nearly as good.  Engines can miss the deep strategic concepts in long endgames.  Did Shredder miss something here?



Avatar of royalbishop

Aaaah that was made to look like Wht can win those moves. Clearly white should have lost the game. And the game should have gone a lot more moves than above.