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Subject: Re: Draw or Lost?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:37:29 05/21/02

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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.


Crafty says that either Be5+ or Bg7 are easy wins...  Score is > +10.00
and it takes no time to find Be5+...



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