In an earlier thread (that I couldn't respond to) Sam Sloan wrote:
>I learned a good lesson from this result because, when I reached a
>position which I thought was a hopeless draw, I offered him a draw
>which he accepted instantaneously. When it took him less than one
>second to accept my draw offer (even though he spoke no English) I
>realized that I must have done something wrong and turned out that I
>had missed a clear endgame win. I had rook and pawn against rook and
>elephant. It seemed to me that this must be a draw, but I was
>mistaken. This would make a good study exercise. I posted the analysis
>of the position on the Internet under my AOL address at the time,
>which was VanUpp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
couldn't find any analysis posted by Sam, but there is some
information about this position on the following web page:
http://lpforth.forthfreak.net/krpkre.html
The page indicates that red can only force a win 66.53% of the time if
you consider all possible starting positions. This may be a misleading
statistic. You can also try setting up positions and playing against
the endgame databases at that site.
-Keith
