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Subject: Re: Record forced-mate announcements? ' in 142

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:18:52 06/04/02

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On June 04, 2002 at 16:40:46, Helmut Conrady wrote:

>>I remember one such position.  Where the king had to walk across the board,
>>force the opponent to move a pawn, then back across the board to eat it, then
>>back again.
>
>[D]8/Bk3p1p/1P3p2/KP2n2p/1P1p4/1Pp2p2/B1P5/7B w - - 0 1
>
>Petrovic 1969
>


Could you (or somebody) explain Black's potential drawing resources here?  It
seems to me that White's king can go over to the kingside and win in multiple
ways without ever having to back to the a-file.  (I'm sure I'm missing something
for Black -- but what?)

TIA!



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