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Subject: Re: pawnendgame kc3 [Both Kc3 and g4 are winning moves]

Author: David Hanley

Date: 09:18:11 05/09/02

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On May 09, 2002 at 08:59:50, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>>[D]8/p1p3p1/7p/1Pk5/P7/1P1K2P1/7P/8 w - - 4 41
>>
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>
>In the meantime I have analysed this positition more deeply and came to the
>conlusion that White wins anyway, either with Kc3 or g4. Black is absolutely
>helpless and gets in Zugzwang. And this might also be the reason that the
>evaluation of the chesscomputer programs do not much differ after executing Kc3
>or g4.
>Kurt

Let's see--you're right!  All the pawn tempii on the kingside don't matter!

g4 kb4 kc2 ( and eventally while zugawangs black out with his king on either c2
or moving it to b2 first.

Still, are the computers seeing that?

dave



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