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Subject: Re: Testposition - Good Night Bad Bishop

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 10:00:31 02/26/01

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On February 25, 2001 at 23:42:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

Oops... I must have been blind... Sorry.
Nice manouver to place the knight on d6 from b7 supported by the king
on a6. I did not see it (Not surprinsing since I did not see the posted line
either :-).

Thanks,
Miguel

>
>[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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