Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 07:55:50 05/03/00
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On May 02, 2000 at 23:12:27, Laurence Chen wrote: >On May 02, 2000 at 20:01:52, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > >>This ending is not so easy to unravel as one might think at first. >>Here are four very similar positions to back up the claim: >>[D]k7/6p1/6B1/8/8/8/7P/K7 w >>White mates in 26 moves. >>With the bishop initially on f7:White mates in 21 moves. >>With the bishop initially on e8:White plays and Black draws. >>With the bishop initially on h5:White plays and Black draws. >>By the way,if the White king were initially on a2,the results >>would be _exactly_ the same. JAFM >That's easy to solve, the solution is to prevent the Black King from reaching >the h8 square by controlling the g8 square at the key moment to force the Black >King to leave the f-file and then White can take control of the g7 square. Once >that is accomplished White can promote the pawn. >Laurence Right,we all know that,the trick is how to do it,these four similar positions show that(hopefully). JAFM
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