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Subject: Re: Testposition - A Sparking Jewel

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 08:50:55 02/28/01

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On February 28, 2001 at 09:56:04, Sune Larsson wrote:

>
>  [D]1n6/4k2p/p3ppp1/1pPp4/3P1PP1/3NP3/P3K2P/8 w - - 0 1
>
>  Take off your hats folks, cause this is a real piece of art!
>  A stunning performance by a great player. If you can figure out
>  who handles the white pieces this way, you'll win a nice price -
>  "My 60 Memories" by Ossi Weiner, provided of course that some justice
>  is done in the old country ;) (Sorry, this was a little European joke
>  that slipped out of my mouth.) Back to the game - we have a knight ending
>  with 7 pawns each. If black's knight was on c6, his queenside majority
>  would be a menace. As things stand, white can engineer a dramatic central
>  breakthrough:
>
>  1.f5!!  [If now 1.-gxf5 2.gxf5 exf5 3.Nf4 wins  - and 1.-Nc6 2.Nf4!]
>          Black stops Nf4, but succumbs to a brilliant diversion.
>
>  1.-g5 2.Nb4 a5 3.c6! Kd6 4.fxe6! Nxc6 5.Nxc6 Kxc6 6.e4! with a winning
>  pawn ending.  [6.-dxe4 7.d5+ etc.]
>
>  Test1: White is winning in a forced, sparking way. Too hard for the comps?
>  Test2: Who played white and composed this beauty? [Sorry, no price ;)
>
>  Sune

It takes Rebel quite long 2:08

Ed

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1n6/4k2p/p3ppp1/1pPp4/3P1PP1/3NP3/P3K2P/8 w - -

00:00:00  04.00  0.68  1.Kf3 a5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Kxe4  [1097]
00:00:01  06.00  0.83  1.g5 Nc6 2.gxf6 Kxf6 3.a3 a5 4.Ne5  [14056]
00:00:02  08.00  0.77  1.h4 h6 2.g5 fxg5 3.fxg5 hxg5 4.hxg5 Nc6 5.Nf4 Kf7
[52873]
00:00:03  09.00  0.90  1.g5 fxg5 2.fxg5 Nc6 3.h3 a5 4.Kf3 Kf7 5.a3  [156854]
00:00:04  10.00  0.83  1.g5 fxg5 2.fxg5 Nc6 3.Kd2 a5 4.h4 Kf8 5.Ne5  [246008]
00:00:11  11.00  0.86  1.g5 f5 2.a3 Kd8 3.Kd2 a5 4.Kc3 Nc6 5.Kb3 Ke7  [330325]
00:00:23  12.00  0.80  1.g5 f5 2.a3 Kd8 3.Kd2 Nd7 4.Nb4 Nb8 5.h4 a5 6.Nd3 Kc7
7.Nf2 Nd7 8.h5  [350546]
00:01:02  13.00  0.74  1.g5 f5 2.a3 Kd8 3.Kd2 a5 4.h3  [373630]
00:01:37  13.02  0.78  1.Kf3 Nc6 2.g5 f5 3.h3 a5  [379953]
00:02:08  13.10  0.78  1.f5  [382891]
00:02:16  13.10  1.05  1.f5 g5 2.Nb4 a5 3.c6 Kd6 4.fxe6 Nxc6 5.Nxc6 Kxc6 6.e4
dxe4  [383703]
00:02:52  14.00  1.09  1.f5 g5 2.Nb4 a5 3.c6 Kd6 4.fxe6 Nxc6 5.Nxc6 Kxc6 6.e4
dxe4  [381187]




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