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Subject: Re: hard? opposite bishops ending

Author: Chris Taylor

Date: 15:20:10 09/19/01

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On September 19, 2001 at 01:10:00, Robin Smith wrote:

>Can any programs solve this ending?
>
>[D] k7/8/4p3/7P/8/3P4/1Bb4P/K7 w - - 0 1
>
>Kazantsev, 1950 study
>
>Solution: 1.Bh8!
Fritz 6 - Taylor,C
k7/8/4p3/7P/8/3P4/1Bb4P/K7 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Hiarcs 7.32:

1.d4 Kb7 2.Ba3 Kc6 3.Kb2 Bh7 4.Kc3 Kd5 5.Bf8 e5 6.dxe5 Kxe5 7.Bg7+ Ke4 8.h6 Bg8
9.h4
  ±  (1.17)   Depth: 1   00:00:00
  ±  (1.27)   Depth: 17/30   00:05:09  47129kN, tb=11653
1.Bc1 Bxd3 2.Kb2 e5 3.Kc3 Be4 4.Kc4 Kb7 5.Bb2 Kc7 6.Bxe5+ Kd7 7.h6 Ke6 8.Kd4 Bh7
9.Bg7 Bf5 10.Be5 Bh7
  ±  (1.28)   Depth: 17/30   00:06:23  58115kN, tb=17999
  ±  (1.29)   Depth: 18/31   00:09:58  88192kN, tb=35960
1.Bg7 Bxd3 2.Kb2 Bh7 3.Kc3 Kb7 4.Kd4 Kc6 5.Ke5 Kd7 6.Kf6 Ke8 7.Kxe6 Bg8+ 8.Kf6
Bc4 9.h6 Bd3 10.Ke6 Bc4+ 11.Ke5 Bd3 12.Kf6 Bb1
  ±  (1.33)   Depth: 18/31   00:21:34  173604kN, tb=108313
  ±  (1.34)   Depth: 21/31   01:14:23  587417kN, tb=361998
1.Bh8 Bxd3
  +-  (1.59)   Depth: 21/31   03:08:24  1446491kN, tb=745676
  +-  (1.59)   Depth: 21/31   03:08:24  1446491kN, tb=745676

(Taylor, Notts 19.09.2001)

Whoops, the oldest!

Chris.





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