Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 15:01:59 11/29/01
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On November 29, 2001 at 16:11:14, Sune Larsson wrote:
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> [D]4b3/5k2/2p1p1p1/1pP2pP1/pP2PP2/P4B2/4K3/8 w - - 0 1
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> Andersson 2625 - Gisbrecht 2405, Bundesliga 1999
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> Yup, a little endgame with bishops of the same colours. White has a great
> square for the king on e5, so every try to push the pawn to this square
> is no good, of course. Classical one where black has his pawns on the "wrong"
> squares. White wins but the real class is getting here in the first place...
>
>
> Test: White to move and wins.
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>[Event "Bundesliga"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1999.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Andersson, Ulf"]
>[Black "Gisbrecht, Ewgeni"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[WhiteElo "2625"]
>[BlackElo "2405"]
>[Annotator "Larsson"]
>[SetUp "1"]
>[FEN "4b3/5k2/2p1p1p1/1pP2pP1/pP2PP2/P4B2/4K3/8 w - - 0 1"]
>[PlyCount "19"]
>[EventDate "1999.??.??"]
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>{White has the better bishop and advantage in space. The white king has an
>excellent square in e5.} 1. Ke3 Ke7 2. Kd4 Bd7 3. Ke5 Be8 {Black's passive
>plan is to keep the king on e7, followed by bishop moves to f7-g8 or d7-c8.} 4.
>Be2 $1 Bd7 5. Bd3 $1 Bc8 {After 5.-Be8 white wins nicely with 6.Bb1 Bf7 7.Ba2
>Bg8 8.exf5 gxf5 9.g6! zugzwang. Also 5.-fxe4 6.Bxe4 Be8 7.Bf3 Bd7 8.Bg2 Be8 9.
>Be4 ends up with zugzwang.} 6. Bc2 Bd7 7. Bb1 Bc8 8. Ba2 $1 {
>The point of white's bishop manouver.} 8... Bd7 9. exf5 exf5 {
>After 9.-gxf5 white wins with 10.g6.} 10. Bg8 $1 {White's bishop enters
>black's position. After 10.-Kf8 11.Kd6 wins. If 10.-Be8 11.Be6. And after 10.
>-Bc8 could follow 11.Bh7 Kf7 12.Kd6 Kg7 13.Bxg6 Kxg6 14.Kxc6 with an easy win.}
>1-0
Which would be the line after 6...Bb7? After 6...Bb7 I get a stable score for
quite some time, while after Bd7, I get a fail high for Bb1.
Regards,
Dieter
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