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Subject: Re: SCOTD

Author: martin fierz

Date: 06:23:00 10/09/03

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On October 08, 2003 at 22:01:02, Slater Wold wrote:

>[D]8/8/4kpp1/3p1b2/p6P/2B5/6P1/6K1 b - - 0 46
>Topalov - Shirov, Linares 1998
>
>
>This game may well already be won for black.  a3 seems unstoppable.  But, let's
>live a little.  The move here is Bh3!
>
>And if you say, "..this game is won, a3 is as good as Bh3..", I will stipulate
>to that, and give you the following position:
>
>[D]8/8/4kpp1/3p4/p6P/2B4P/8/6K1 b - - 0 47
>
>Kf5!

i'm not sure whether other moves than ...Bh3!! win - not because i looked at
this myself, but because of this article, claiming that it's the only win. and
dvoretsky usually knows what he's saying...

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/dvoretsky06.pdf

cheers
  martin



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