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Subject: Re: Junior 7 endgame blunder !

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 09:04:34 01/22/02

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On January 22, 2002 at 11:56:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 22, 2002 at 10:40:33, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>[D]B7/5pk1/6p1/7p/7P/8/4K3/8 b - - 0 1
>>
>>In this position Junior 7 played 60.....f5 ?? and lost this ending.  This was
>>done with access to all 3/4/5 man tablebases.  I'm an idiot and I can see about
>>3 ways to draw this ending without tablebases.
>>By the way, what's up with Chessbase?  If you ask Junior 7 to copy the position,
>>this is what you get: "wKe2,Ba8,Ph4/bKg7,Pf7,g6,h5"   Have they never heard of
>>FEN over there?  Who in the hell uses this kind of nonsense to describe a
>>position???????
>
>
>How could it possibly lose this as black?  Even if it just gives
>up all the pawns, white has the wrong bishop if my eyes are not playing
>tricks on me.  It would seem that playing g6 when black can't recapture
>if white takes would be the only way to lose, turning that worthless rook
>pawn into a knight pawn that can win.

You asked for it!

[D]B7/5pk1/6p1/7p/7P/8/4K3/8 b - - 0 60
  60...f5 61.Ke3 f4+ 62.Kxf4 Kh6 63.Be4 Kg7 64.Kg5 Kh8 65.Kh6 Kg8 66.Bd5+ Kh8
67.Bc4 g5 68.hxg5 h4 69.g6 h3 70.g7# 1-0



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