Author: Alexander Kure
Date: 17:50:10 12/29/00
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On December 29, 2000 at 20:28:06, Uri Blass wrote:
>On December 29, 2000 at 18:19:58, Alexander Kure wrote:
>
>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>In the currently running Wels (Austria) tournament held by Mr. Wiesenecker in
>>the game Nimzo 8 vs. SOS an interesting position showed up.
>>
>>[D]8/8/5kp1/7p/7K/4BP2/8/8 w - - 0 72
>>
>>In this position Nimzo 8 played 73.f4?? and despite a +10.00 evaluation at moves
>>75 and 76 the score immediately dropped to 0 in the following moves!
>>
>>The following idea would have won easily:
>>73.Bb6 Kf5 74.Bc7 Kf6 75.f4 {only now!} Kf5
>>76.Be5 {controlling f6} Ke6
>>{76...Ke4 77.Kg5 Kf3 78.Kxg6 h4 79.f5 game over}
>>77.Kg5 Kf7 78.Bd4 {winning}
>
>What about 73.f4 Kf5 74.Kg3
>
>Crafty with part of the 5 piece tablebases(not including the KBP vs KP) failed
>high on 74.Kg3 after a few minutes and the score get up every iteration(the
>score is +5.96 at the end of iteration 27.
>
>The idea is 74...Ke4 75.Bb6 Kf5 76.Bd8 Ke4 77.Bc7 Kf5 78.Kh4 Kf6 79.Bb8 Kf5
>80.Be5 when black is in zunzwang.
>
>Uri
Hi Uri,
This is exactly the winning method i described above, but with a few more moves
involved.
So Crafty should have avoided 73.f4?
74.Kg3 seems to save the game, so maybe 75.Kg5 as played in the game was the
decisive mistake?
Greetings
Alex
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