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Subject: Re: endgame position - (not so) wrong bishop

Author: John Hatcher

Date: 02:36:58 03/19/01

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On March 19, 2001 at 05:02:14, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>>>You may want to test the following position from J. Awerbach too.
>>
>>[D]2k5/8/3K4/1p6/p7/P7/1B6/8 w
>
>Hi Bernhard,
>
>thanx for the position. Could you please post the complete solution (although I
>think I get the idea)?
>
>My eval term doesn't work if the weak side
>- gets into Zugzwang
>- has a pawn on the b/g file which can be forced to be pushed and then can be
>taken by the a/h pawn
>
>Greetings,
>Steffen.

This position is from Horwitz (1885) and appears as position 153a in Fine's
Basic Chess Endings:

[D]8/k7/8/1pK5/p4B2/P7/8/8 w - - 0 1

JOHN




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