Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:33:10 11/03/00
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On November 03, 2000 at 03:11:29, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On November 03, 2000 at 02:47:40, Sune Larsson wrote: > >>On November 02, 2000 at 20:08:57, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >> >>>[D]8/1R3p2/4pkp1/7p/7P/5PP1/r7/6K1 w - - 10 46 >>> >>>Why doesn't White play 46.f4 here? >> >> >> Yes, the position after 46.f4 is claimed by Kramnik's seconds, >> Illescas and Lautier, to be a known book draw. See Henderson report >> at TWIC. Instead Kramnik chose 46.Kf1 (? according to Henderson), >> probably because he didn't know this book draw - or got some OTB doubts. >> >> Sune > >Thanks. I suspected that this might be a known draw, so I looked for it in a >couple endgame books, but came up empty. I was surprised that other annotators >did not write about it. Actually, the commentators for the Braingames webcam did >mention it, but cast it aside as bad, because it "allows" Black to infiltrate >White's position via the White squares. Naturally, I could not convince myself >that their claim was accurate, hence my post. > >I think after 46.f4, they could have agreed to a draw and shaken hands. I do not think that it is so simple and I expect black to try to play it after 46.f4 I did not anlayze the position but the fact that kramnik did not play it proves that it is not a simple draw(I am sure that he considered f4 because it is a natural move to consider). Uri
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