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Subject: Re: What is the principle continuation of this position

Author: pete

Date: 08:36:41 09/03/00

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On September 03, 2000 at 11:17:50, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>[D]3r2k1/p2r2p1/1p1B2Pp/4PQ1P/2b1p3/P3P3/7K/8 w - - bm e6;id "BT2450-27";
>
>Best move is "e6", but my program keeps picking "Qxe4".
>
>What makes e6 the correct move?  I only ran this positions to 12 plys.
>
>Larry.

e6 wins material as uri pointed out .

On the other hand this isn't an easily won position IMHO .

A plausible line :

1. e6 Rxd6 2. Qf7 + Kh8 3. e7 Rd2 + 4. Kg3 b5 5. a4 a6 6. ab ab 7. Kf4 Rg8 8.
e8=Q Rxe8 9. Qxe8 + Bg8 10. Qxb5 Rg2 11. Kxe4 Rg4 + 12. Kf3 Rg5

and it is still not over at all .



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