Author: Michael Williams
Date: 21:37:28 04/27/02
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On April 27, 2002 at 18:12:27, Uri Blass wrote: >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. With respect to solely the above sentence, I recall Fine and/or others stating that even with connected pawns (not terribly advanced, of course) 5 such pawns lose to a 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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