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

Author: David Hanley

Date: 21:13:54 05/10/02

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On May 10, 2002 at 18:13:24, Dan Andersson wrote:

>>1) g4?(no doubt) kb4
>>2) kc2
>>
>>2)   .... kc5
>>     kc3 is easy for white
>
>I would be interested to see the variation after.3... Kd5 ?
>

After

3 ... kd5
4 b4

and white gets some kind of opposition

4 .. kd6 5 kd4 kd6 6 kd4 kd7 7 kd5 kd8 8 kc6 kc8 9 a5 kc8 10 a6 kb8 11 kd7 ka8
12 kxc7 ( this is critical and repeated after below lines ) White can easily win
even by running to the kingside here
4 .. ke6 5 kc4
4 .. ke5 4 kc4

By far the best try for black is to play ke5 and try to make use of white's
stupid g4 move:

4 .. ke5
5 kc5 kf4
6 h3 kg3
7 kc6 k*h3
8 k*c7 k*g4
9 a5 h5
10 b6 ab
11 a6! ( covers a1 after promotion ) h4
12 a7 h3
13 a8=q

There's a lot of variations but i'm 95% sure white still wins after g4, but it's
surely *much* harder.

dave



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