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Subject: Re: Testposition - Good Night Bad Bishop

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 20:42:56 02/25/01

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On February 25, 2001 at 23:23:38, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On February 25, 2001 at 11:17:38, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>
>>  [D]8/5b2/1k2p1p1/2NpP1P1/1K1P4/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>
>>  In this position white's knight is far superior to black's bishop. This is
>>  very old knowledge and white is winning this one. People that play French
>>  as black might have nightmares of positions like this. The black bishop
>>  can only defend the two weak pawns on e6,g6 or wander around like a ghost
>>  on the white squares.
>
>Is it winning? to me it is a draw...
>Do you have a winning line?
>
>Miguel

He posted a winning line in the post you responded to and I copy it again for
your convenience

[1.Na4+ Kc6 2.Ka5 Kb7 3.Nc5+ Kc7 (3.-Ka7 4.Kb5 Be8+ 5.Kb4 Bf7 6.Ka5 Bg8 7.Kb5)
   4.Kb5 Be8+ 5.Ka6 Bf7 6.Nb7 Be8 7.Ka7 Bf7 8.Nd6 Bg8 9.Ka6 Kc6 10.Ka5 Bh7
   11.Nf7 Bg8 12.Nh8 Bh7 13.Ka6 Kc7 14.Kb5 Kb7 15.Kc5 Kc7 16.Nf7 Bg8 17.Nd6 Bh7
   18.Ne8+ Kd8 19.Nf6 and wins]

Uri



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