Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 12:37:03 02/27/01
[D]8/6k1/2p5/pp2p3/4P1K1/2PP4/P7/8 b - - 0 1
This is Damjanovic-Dvorecki, Vilnius 1978. Mistakes in the endgame are
punished severely. Here black is on the move and has to decide if he
wants to lose with 1.-c5??, thinks peace and draw is good enough with 1.-Kf6?,
or goes for the whole cheese with 1.-Kg6! Oh, this is just tiresome
calculation. No match for Kasparov, I guess. Computers?
The game went like this:
1.-Kg6! [1.-c5?? 2.Kf5 b4 3.cxb4 cxb4 4.Kxe5 a4 5.Kd4+-]
[1.-Kf6? 2.Kf3 c5 3.Ke3 b4 4.d4! cxd4+ 5.cxd4 a4 6.dxe5+ Kxe5 7.Kd3=]
2.Kf3 [2.d4 exd4 3.cxd4 b4-+] 2.-c5 3.Ke3 [3.d4 cxd4 4.cxd4 b4! 5.Ke3 a4-+]
3.-b4 4.d4 [4.cxb4 cxb4 5.Kd2 a4! 6.Kc2 Kg5 7.Kd2 Kf4-+]
4.-cxd4+ 5.cxd4 a4! 6.Kd3 b3 7.axb3 a3 8.Kc2 exd4 9.b4 d3+ 0-1
Test: 1.-c5?? loses. If you are a programmer please rewrite your program
totally from scratch. If you are a consumer just
throw the damned thing. ;)
1.-Kf6? draws. Ok, peaceful mind - but you just missed some glory.
Programmers: Have a look at the evals - the right move
was just around the corner.
1.-Kg6! wins. Congrats! This is good stuff. Just hope the margin
to 1.-Kf6? was more than 0.02...
Sune
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