Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 10:35:02 11/22/97
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>Posted by Howard Exner on November 22, 1997 at 00:06:56: >Position #5 Here is the analysis given in Chess Life >k7/pp6/8/P7/3K4/P7/P4B2/8 w - - >M. Hasanov - B. Borisov (Russia, 1995) >1. a4 Kb8 2. Kd5 Ka8 3. Kd6 Kb8 4. Kd7 Ka8 >5. Bh4(I think Bg3 works also. Not Kc8 as b7! >draws) Kb8 6. Bd8 Ka8 7. Kc8 b6 8. a6 b5 >9. a5 b4 10. Bb6 b3 11. a2xb3 a7xb6 12. b4 >and mates Rebel9 not found after 3 minutes on ply-17. Rebel doesn't recognize doubled pawns on the a or h line as a draw. Special end game table has no entries left. Therefore only Bishop + one pawn is supported for a draw :( >New Position #6 >8/Bpk5/8/P2K4/8/8/8/8 w - - id "Paulsen - Metzer" bm Kd4; >This is also from the same Chess Life article. >The win is given as: >1. Kd4! (Kc4 b7-b5+ or Kc5 b7-b6+ are drawing positions) Kc6 >2. Bb6 Kd6 3. Kc4 Kc6 4. Kb4 Kd6 5. Kb5 Kd7 6. Kc5 Kc8 >7. Ba7! Kd7 8. Bb8 >Here Rebel 8 seems to want to play Kd4 as it gets the (+) indicator >during analysis but at 15:00 it still likes Kc5. The cache fills up >quickly here so I wonder if it is hitting a wall at 30 ply? I don't think so as there are only few extensions in such positions. Anyway Rebel9 reports: 00:39 15.08 6.43 Kd4 01:21 16.00 5.21 Kd4 02:29 17.00 6.29 Kd4 06:02 18.00 5.89 Kd4 and steady. Machine PII-266, hash=28 Mb - Ed -
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