Pawns more valuable than queens !!

[Matthias Gemuh]

[Event "Mega2 "]
[Site "ChessGUI"]
[White "Pos"]
[Black "Belofte"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Ne4 3.d4 Nc6 4.d5 Nb4 5.c4 Nc5 6.g3 a6 7.f4 a5 8.a3 Nba6
9.h4 Ne4 10.g4 Ng3 11.b3 Nc5 12.Qc2 Nxh1 13.Kd1 Ng3 14.Bg2 Ra6 15.Bd2 h6
16.Nc3 Rb6 17.Nf3 Ra6 18.Ke1 Rb6 19.Rd1 Nd3 20.Qxd3 Rg6 21.Kf2 Rxg4 22.Kg1 Nh5
23.Kf1 Rg3 24.Ke1 b6 25.Kf1 Ba6 26.Ne4 Rg4 27.Nf6 gxf6 28.Be1 Bxc4 29.bxc4 Rxg2
30.Kxg2 Nxf4 31.Kg3 Nxd3 32.Rxd3 fxe5 33.Rd2 e4 34.Ng1 Qa8 35.Kf2 Rg8 36.Ke3 Rxg1
37.Ke2 Rg2 38.Ke3 Rxd2 39.Bxd2 e6 40.Kf4 exd5 41.a4 dxc4 42.Bc3 Bd6 43.Be5 Bxe5
44.Kf5 Qd5 45.Kg4 e3 46.Kf5 e2 47.h5 c3 48.Kg4 c2 49.Kh4 Qh1 50.Kg4 c1=Q
51.Kf5 Qa1 52.Kg4 Qxa4 53.Kf5 Qc4 54.Kxe5 Qxh5 55.Kf6 Qe5 56.Kxe5 a4 57.Kf5 a3
58.Kf6 Qc3 59.Kf5 Qf3 60.Ke5 d6 61.Kd4 a2 62.Kc4 d5 63.Kd4 c5 64.Ke5 d4
65.Kd6 Qg3 66.Kd5 Qf3 67.Kd6 Qg3 68.Kc6 d3 69.Kb7 Qf3 70.Kb8 Qf4 71.Kc8 d2
72.Kb7 Qe4 73.Kc7 c4 74.Kd6 Qe7 75.Kd5 Qc5 76.Ke4 Qe5 77.Kxe5 c3 78.Ke4 b5
79.Kf5 c2 80.Kf4 b4 81.Kf3 e1=Q 82.Kf4 Qf2 83.Kg4 b3 84.Kh5 Qh2 85.Kg4 b2
86.Kf3 f5 87.Ke3 Qd6 88.Kf3 f4 89.Kf2 Qg6 90.Kf3 Qg3 91.Ke4 Qe3 92.Kd5 f3
93.Kc4 f2 94.Kb4 h5 95.Kb5 Qe5 96.Kb6 Qb8 97.Kc6 h4 98.Kc5 h3 99.Kc6 h2
100.Kd5 Qb5 101.Kd4 Qb3 102.Ke4 Qh3 103.Kf4 Kf7 104.Ke4 Kg8 105.Kd4 Qa3
106.Kd5 Qa6 107.Ke5 Qh6 108.Kd5 Qa6 109.Kc5 Kh7
1/2-1/2
{ Game Nr. 3207 : Pos draws against Belofte 0.2.8
Finalposition 8/7k/q7/2K5/8/8/pppp1p1p/8 w - -,
StartTime = 09:10:18 on 10.07.2007, GameLength = 109 moves, GameDuration = 00:02:26 }


Final position :
[D] 6k1/8/q7/2K5/8/8/pppp1p1p/8 b - - 0 109

[H.G.Muller]

Well, 'Belofte' means 'promise' in Dutch, and the pawns hold the promise to become Queens. This is probably why it favors them

Yet Belofte can promote, I have seen it do it. It just doesn't seem to account for it in its evaluation.

Even more strange is that Belofte often resigns in positions like this... Due to this it might even lose a match against NEG, although it hugely overplays it. But then all games end in rep-draws in positions like the one above, or Belofte resigns in such positions.