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Subject: Re: tricky endgame

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 23:10:35 10/21/01

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On October 21, 2001 at 18:22:26, Jon Dart wrote:

>Recently Arasan had this position against Postmodernist:
>
>[D] 8/6P1/2B2n2/p4P2/P2k4/1pp5/1K6/8 w - -
>
>White played Kc1 and lost after ... c2 64. Kd2 Kc4 65. Bb5+ Kb4 66. Bd3 Kxa4
>67. Bc4 Ka3 68. Kc1.
>
>I think White is dead after Kc1 and has to play Kxb3 here. But it seems to be
>extraordinarily difficult for a number of programs, including mine, to see that
>this is bad.
>

Analysis by Wilhelm prefers Kxb3
   1     0s    1.99         38         97    Kb2xb3! Kd4-d3
   2     0s    2.00        313        467    Kb2xb3! Kd4-d3 Bc6-f3
   3     1s    1.98        854        656    Kb2xb3! Kd4-d3 Bc6-b5+ Kd3-d4!
Bb5-c4
   4     1s    1.69       3344       1699    Kb2xb3! Kd4-d3 Bc6-b5+ Kd3-d2!
Kb3-c4 c3-c2
   5     1s    1.69      10546       4450    Kb2xb3! Kd4-d3 Bc6-b5+ Kd3-d2!
Bb5-c4 c3-c2 g7-g8Q
   6     4s    1.42      48610      15366    Kb2xb3! Kd4-d3 Bc6-b5+ Kd3-d2!
Bb5-c4 c3-c2 g7-g8Q c2-c1Q
   7    12s    1.69     161445      49026    Kb2xb3! Kd4-d3 Bc6-b5+ Kd3-d2!
Bb5-c4 c3-c2 g7-g8Q c2-c1N+ Kb3-b2! Nf6xg8

If I clear Hashtables and move Kc1:

   1     0s   -0.37         16         43    c3-c2
   2     0s   -1.69        121        189    Kd4-e5 Kc1-d1
   3     0s   -1.73        643        734    Kd4-e5 Bc6-f3 Ke5xf5
   4     0s   -1.70       2894       1513    Kd4-e5 Bc6-f3 Ke5xf5 Kc1-d1
   5     1s   -1.98      14313       8314    c3-c2 Kc1-d2 Kd4-e5 Bc6-f3 Ke5xf5
   6     7s   -0.41      74333      42623    c3-c2 Kc1-d2 Kd4-e5 Bc6-d7 Nf6-e4+
Kd2-c1! Ne4-f6
   7    27s   -0.38     307435     174942    c3-c2 Kc1-d2 Kd4-e5 Bc6-d7 Ke5-f4
Bd7-e6 Nf6-e4+


regards
Rafael B. Andrist



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