Author: Howard Exner
Date: 18:09:12 11/29/00
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On November 29, 2000 at 04:14:54, Jouni Uski wrote: >On November 29, 2000 at 02:53:28, Howard Exner wrote: > >>Another good example of the "right move for the wrong reason" is this Botvinnik >>position against Kotov. Best move is g5, but after fxg5 black must avoid Kg3, >>and instead follow up with the only winning move, d4. >> >>[D]8/8/4b1p1/2Bp3p/5P1P/1pK1Pk2/8/8 b - - bm g6g5; > >I have read, that also d4 is winning as first move. So there is second solution. >Is this may be only different move order? Yes I think you are correct. I never considered d4 as an alternative since I have Botvinnik's book on this and he never mentions d4 as a transposing first move. At least I cannot find a refutation to it. Is there one? Black must follow through with g5, after white plays Bxd4 or exd4 and it looks like black wins as his bishop can hold back all the white pawns.
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