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Subject: Re: 24 interesting endgame positions

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 08:05:30 10/14/98

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On October 13, 1998 at 13:00:06, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On October 13, 1998 at 04:52:21, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>
>>On October 12, 1998 at 19:26:21, Howard Exner wrote:
>>>
>>>What is your drawing line for Nb4. So far I can only see that Nb4 will
>>>lose but I do not have any endgame table bases to help me out. Thanks.

>Yes here's the lines :
>
>[FEN "k7/7K/NR6/8/7p/6p1/p7/8 w - - 0 1"]  (position n°21)
>
>1. Nb8! (1. Nb4? 1... Ka7 ! (1... a1=Q? 2. Nc6! Qa7+ 3. Nxa7 Kxa7 4.
>Rg6 ! +-) 2. Ra6+ Kb7 3. Rxa2 3... h3 -+) 1... Ka7! 2. Rb4 a1=Q 3. Nc6+ Ka6 4.
>Nb8+ Ka5 5. Nc6+ Ka6 6. Nb8+ Ka5 7. Nc6+ Ka6 repetition draw

I was originally asking Ernst what his drawing line was for Nb4 as he
thought that this line is also a draw. He posted back that Nb4 does not
draw but loses.



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