Author: Josh Strayhorn
Date: 18:05:53 04/13/01
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On April 13, 2001 at 16:43:12, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >On April 13, 2001 at 13:09:53, Dann Corbit wrote: > >> >>This offers another permutation to ponder (white's response 3. Re2 is not >>considered elsewhere...) >> >>Alex Szabo's pv went like this (after Rb4): >>cxb4 a4 b5+ Kxb5 Ba3 c3 Re2! Kc4 f4 Kxd4 f5 exf5 ... > >Dann, I think that we should analyze what happens with Bd7 rather than Kxd4. > >Regards, >Miguel White plays f5. If Black plays ...exf5, then we're back in a line similar to those already analyzed. Basically, once the pawn is on e7, White puts his rook on h2, and oscillates the king back and forth between f3 and f4. Black can make no progress, as ...b2 and ...c2 lead nowhere as long as the rook is on the second rank, and ...Kc4 allows Rh8, which will lead to repetition as White attacks the loose Black bishop, and Black can't play ...b2 without allowing the e7 pawn to queen. The move ...Bd7 does have one thing to recommend it, though, as Black can get away with ...gxf5 instead of ...exf5. However, I can't find a win in this line either. The themes aren't altered in any particularly meaningful way, that I can see. I'm inclined to think that since Black can't force the White rook off of the second rank, Black will never really be able to make any progress. In lines where Black puts the bishop on c6, and plays ...d4, taking the f3 square away from the White king, the idea of Ke5 is strong enough to at least draw.
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