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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