Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:12:27 04/27/02
The following position is from my last game [D]6k1/RR4p1/5p1p/4p3/8/P7/4rrPP/3K4 b - - 0 31 I played 31...Rxg2 and after 32.a4 Ra2 my opponent resigned. After the game he said that he needed one more tempo. I said that I was lucky because I saw the idea of Rxg7+ that almost win the game only after I played 31...Rxg2. I played 31...Rxg2 fast because the move seemed to be almost forced(I did not like the idea of Rd2+ Kc1 and the idea of Ra2 with the double mate threat is gone) I also said in the anlaysis that the best was still 32.Rxg7+ Rxg7 33.Ra8+ inspite of the fact that white is losing after 33...Kf7 34.Kxe2 Rg2+ because in the worst case black will need to sacrifice the rook for the a pawn when the black passed pawns are going to be srtronger than the rook. I find that some top programs cannot find 31...Rxg2 for black because they do not evaluate correctly the pawn endgame. Uri
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