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Subject: Re: Pawn ending === Capablanca-Ed.Lasker (simul) [test position] 40...Ke6!!

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:39:38 05/23/02

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On May 23, 2002 at 08:57:53, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:

>       Pawn ending === Capablanca-Ed.Lasker (simul) [test position] 40...Ke6!!
>    Source ===>  http://209.176.8.36/winter/winter.htm#2616. Sultan Khan
>                 [ please see item #2617 ]
>    [...]"the full game was examined by J. Mihalik on pages 251-252
>          of the August 1928 Deutsche Schachzeitung. He censured Black
>         for playing 40…Ke5 instead of 40…Ke6. The latter move he gave two
>        exclamation marks for being the way to draw."
>    [D]8/7p/p7/3k1pPP/3p4/3K4/P7/8 b


Exactly correct.  (By the way, I got to meet and speak to Edward Lasker in the
late 1970s, when he was over age 90.)

Brief analysis:

1...Ke6!

   [1...Ke5? 2.h6 f4 3.g6 +-]

2.Kxd4 f4 3.Ke4 f3 4.Kxf3 Kf5 5.g6 hxg6 6.h6 Kf6 =



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