Bulldog Chess with Hunter (HorribleTomato - vickalan)

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captaintugwash

Here's a useful endgame analysis tool...

http://www.k4it.de/index.php?lang=en&topic=egtb

It allows up to six pieces, so you can analyse all K+Q+P vs K+Q endgames. If you start looking at them, you notice that most are drawn... usually the attacker can only win if he can trade off queens while keeping the king close to the pawn.

 

It's very difficult to turn a pawn advantage into a win with just a queen. The more pawns, the easier for the attacker to win, because it's harder for the defender to find perpetuals and it's easier to fork king and pawn. 3 vs 2 is too close for me to call, it could be a win by force for white but he needs to be accurate to avoid giving you drawing chances.

captaintugwash

By the way, in case anyone doesn't know, it is TOTALLY cheating to use an endgame tablebase to analyse active games. And playing a perfect endgame with a rating of 1700 or whatever is extremely suspicious. I rarely play a perfect endgame.

 

It's ok to analyse arbitrary positions, assuming it's also ok to use an opening database. Most blitz games, it would not be allowed, but most daily games it would be.

captaintugwash

Further reading...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_and_pawn_versus_queen_endgame

captaintugwash

Black to move, white mates in 297

Martin0

Practically it doesn't matter if it is theoretically won or drawn when neither the attacker or defender will play perfectly. If it is a close case, such as 2 pawns vs 1, then the evaluation is likely to flip several times.

 

It is sort of amusing when you hear stuff like "mate in x" when clearly a human would not think of the positions as how many moves are required to checkmate.

HorribleTomato

Kh6

HorribleTomato

but I can't play that.

captaintugwash

haha sorry about that, my fault.

vickalan

I'll have to study all the comments about this game later. For now...
65...Qf6+

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HorribleTomato

Vick has failed to achieve a DRAW!

Ki5

vickalan

Maybe, but not proven yet.tongue.png
66...Qe5+

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HorribleTomato

Kj6 wink.png Definitely.

vickalan

67...Qh8+

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HorribleTomato

i7

vickalan

68...Qxh4+

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HorribleTomato

Ki6

vickalan

69...Qf6+

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vickalan

I think this is a draw, if I play correctly. But I'm not 100% sure.meh.png

HorribleTomato

Kh5

vickalan

70...Qf5+

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