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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