Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:42:05 05/23/02
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On May 23, 2002 at 12:28:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 23, 2002 at 11:39:38, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>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.) > > >I got to both talk with him, _and_ watch him play (continue) a game vs >chess 4.x at one of the ACM chess events. He lost of course, as he was >simply too old to keep up even with good 1970-1980 supercomputers... > > Dr. Hyatt, you forget one thing: like Lasker, you too are a world-famous chess celebrity. It's EXPECTED that *you* would know all the other world-famous chess celebrities of your lifetime. ;-) >> >>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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