Author: Jim Monaghan
Date: 05:47:53 05/21/02
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Hi Janosch, Black is clearly lost. Play might go like this: 62. Kc3 Ka8 63. Kd2 Kb8 64. Ke1 (It's important for the WK to be near the black pawns that may try sacrificing themselves. If a sacrifice is tried. White will have a spare move to move the bishop off the line confining the king.) 64. ... Ka8 65. Be5 b4 (This thrust muddies the waters for a few moves. White deals with it, before trying the final squeeze.) 66. Bf6 b3 67. Kd2 b2 68. Kc2 b1=Q+ 69. Kxb1 Kb8 70. Kc2 Ka8 71. Kd2 Kb8 72. Ke1 Ka8 73. Kf1 Kb8 74. Bg7 Ka8 ( 74... Kc8 75. Be5 Kd7 76. Bb8 ) 75. Be5 f4 76. gxf4 g3 77. Bg7 * (And the f-pawn queens.) Cheers, Jim On May 21, 2002 at 08:07:14, Janosch Zwerensky wrote: >Hi all, > >in a game I recently played against another human, I got into the following >position, playing black: > >[D] 1k6/p7/P1p2B2/PpPp1p2/1K1Pp1p1/4P1P1/5P2/8 w - - 0 62 > >I believed and still do believe that this should be drawn, because it seems that >black can counter any zugzwang threats from white by stalemate ideas, and >because otherwise the position is trivially blocked (in the game, my opponent >overplayed and managed to get himself into a totally lost ending, but won on >time ;)...). >Two questions do I wish to ask to the board now: > >1. Is there a winning plan for white? >2. How do the chess engines around assess the situation? > >Regards, >Janosch.
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