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Subject: Re: New Tough Endgame Test Suite

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 15:58:19 06/02/00

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On June 02, 2000 at 18:06:29, Paulo Soares wrote:

>
>I think the better way to analyse a position is( I wrote this in another post):
>
>1. To give a long time so that only the program analyzes
>   the position.
>2. To analyze for a long time, with the help of the program,
>   the chosen program move, and other moves that are interesting in the
>   player's opinion.
>
>After seeing the good results gotten by Uri in Israel Correspondence
>Championship, I am believing more in programs, although I don't have a lot
>of patience to leave the program to analyze a position for 8 hours, because
>I like to analyse from the way of item 2, even without to know the
>choosen program move after some hours.
>
>Below I placed some analyses that I did with the help of Fritz6a, without
>leaving the program to analyze for a long time.
>
>I think that 1. Kf3 and 1. g5, are winner moves and gxh5 it's a draw. This
>seems to be in agreement with your way to analyze positions.
>
>
>1. Kf3 (1. gxh5 Kg7 2. Kf3 Bb8 3. Kg4 Kh6 4. Bd1 Bh2 5. Kf5 a4 6. Bxa4 Kxh5 7.
>Bd1+ Kh6 8. Kf6 Bg3 9. Bf3 Bc7 10. Kf7 Kh7 11. h4 Kh8 12. h5 Kh7 13. Ke8 Bf4
>14. Kd7 Be5 {=}) (1. g5 h4 (1... Kf7 2. Kf3 Bd6 3. h4 Ke6 (3... Kg7 4. Ke4 Kf8
>5. Kf5 Kf7 6. g6+ Kg7 7. Kg5 {+-}) 4. Ke4 Bc7 5. Bb3+ Ke7 6. Kf5 Bg3 7. g6 {+-}
>) 2. Kf3 Bg3 3. Kg4 Kf7 (3... Kg7 4. Kh5 Kf7 5. Kh6 {+-}) 4. g6+ Kf6 5. Kh5 Kg7
>6. Kg5 {+-}) 1... Bc7 2. g5 h4 (2... Kf7 3. h4 Ke6 4. Ke4 Bb6 5. Bb3+ Ke7 6.
>Kf5 {+-}) (2... Kg7 3. h4 Kf7 4. Ke4 Kf8 5. Kf5 Kg7 6. Ke6 Bb8 7. Kd7 {+-}) 3.
>Kg4 Bg3 4. g6 Kf8 (4... Kh8 5. Kf5 Kg7 6. Kg5 {+-}) (4... Kg7 5. Kg5 {+-}) 5.
>Kf5 Kg7 6. Kg5 $18 Bc7 7. Kxh4 a4 8. Kg5 (8. Bxa4 Kxg6 {=}) 8... a3 9. Bb3 Bd8+
>10. Kf5 Kh6 11. h4 Kg7 12. h5 {+-}
>
>Paulo

	Excellent analysis Paulo! I was missing the key move 4. g6 in the main (it can
be done later) and only saw a big advantage for white but no clear win. The key
is that the the white king on g5 forces black bishop to stay at g3 (it has to
defend the h4 pawn and guard the c7 square simultaneously).
José.



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