Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 03:26:33 03/06/05
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On March 05, 2005 at 19:51:20, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On March 05, 2005 at 17:44:07, Vasik Rajlich wrote: > >>White can outmanoever the black king. For example 1. .. Kg6 2. Kg4 b6 3. b3 a6 >>4. a3 a5 5. a4 Kf6 6. Kh5 Kf7 7. Kh6 Kf6 8. Kh7 Kf7 9. d3 Kf6 9. Kg8 etc. > >Yace got a small fail low with 1...Kg6. But anyway, how about 2...Kf6 in your >line. Yace chose 1...Kf7 with draw score even after a very long think. In your >line after b6 I get a pretty convincing score for white. > >Regards, >Dieter Dieter, ok - I looked again. First of all, it's really easy to beat Shredder 9 in this position. Another example, after 2. .. Kf6: 3. Kh5 Kg7 4. Kg5 Kf7 5. Kf5 Ke7 6. Kg6 Ke6 7. Kg7 Ke7 8. d3 a6 9. b3 Kd7 10. Kf7 and now finally a huge fail low. But - I think that 1. .. Kf7 is indeed drawing. The problem from white's point of view is that e4 is temporarily undefended, so 2. Kh5 Kf6 3. Kh6 Kf7 and now white can't play 4. Kh7 Kf6 5. Kg8 because again 5. .. Kg5 is winning for black. If the pawn were already on d3 this would win for white, but in this setup white needs to keep that d2-d3 tempo. So - let me fix this position once again so that Yace won't get it (this time I am 100% sure :)) : [D] 8/1p6/3p1k2/p1p1p3/2P1P2K/1P1P4/P7/8 b - - Vas
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