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Subject: Re: Tough position

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 04:01:58 07/12/00

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On July 11, 2000 at 17:32:26, blass uri wrote:

>On July 11, 2000 at 16:43:10, Yar wrote:
>
>>[D] 8/k4p2/1r3P2/7p/1N1B1Q1P/5B2/1K5q/8 w
>>
>>Computers can't solve this
>
>I think that you are wrong.
>Computers have no problem to see that Bg2 wins(they may need more than few
>seconds but it does not say that the position is hard for computers.
>
>I guess that old programs with no tablebases and no knowledge about the blind
>bishop in endgames can fail but it does not prove that computers cannot solve
>it.
>
>1.Bg2 Qxf4 2.Bxb6 Kb8 3.Bc7+ Qxc7 4.Na6+ Kc8 5.Bh3+ is winning for white.
>
>Uri

Bh3 is pretty, but it doesn't win.  Look at Kb7.  Then its pretty obvious to me
that black will get to the Kside first and pick off the F pawn for the H pawn,
and the resulting kBpkp should be easily drawn.



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