Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:30:08 05/23/02
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On May 23, 2002 at 12:42:05, Roy Eassa wrote: >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. ;-) > I am hardly in Lasker's class, in any way... :) > >>> >>>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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