Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 13:36:27 02/27/01
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On February 27, 2001 at 15:37:03, Sune Larsson wrote: > > [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 Hi! Both Shredder4 and Nimzo8 thinks Kf6 is winning. Nimzo thinks Kg6 wins also both moves +2.66 after 10 minutes. Bertil
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