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Subject: Re: Testposition - The Burial

Author: Paul

Date: 04:21:38 02/28/01

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On February 28, 2001 at 04:01:03, Sune Larsson wrote:

>  5Bk1/2R5/2p4P/p4p2/1p3P2/1P6/7p/1bK5 w - - 0 1
>
>  The story goes that the unknown white player had made some miscalculations
>  in the middlegame. Now he sat there staring at the black h2 pawn, which
>  was just about to promote. His opponent was walking around with a big
>  smile on his face. Heavy clouds entered the white player's mind. Not
>  only was he facing a loss in the team match but just recently a good
>  friend of his had passed away. When suddenly an ingenious idea flashed
>  his mind! Oh yes, there was indeed a miraculous way to save half a point!
>
>  Test: White to move and make a draw. Fritz seems to have a good idea
>        about these queer things. The solution is further down.

Hi ... and YUCK!!

This one seems to be easy for some reason, coz Pretz finds it, including the Kb2
move, in 1 second ... will have to look more closely at how that happened
later.

Paul



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