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Subject: Re: Opposite Color bishop ending - ends in a win.

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 14:48:47 08/10/02

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On August 10, 2002 at 15:26:57, Mike Byrne wrote:

>Position between Aristarch and Crafty SE 17.16.
>
>[D] 2b5/8/2kP1K2/Pp5p/1B5P/8/8/8 b - - 0 64 ; am
>
>This position has all the appearances of a dead drawn opposite color bishop
>ending - and I think it is - but I'm not a master - so I can't say for sure.
>
>I do know that 64....Kd7 that Aristarch played leads to an immediate loss.
>
>Crafty 17.16 SE fails with Kd7 in two seconds and switches to Bd7 - which may
>hold the draw - the win would be definately be harder for white after 64....
>Bd7.

Both moves lose.  It's a matter of chose your poison.  You have to go back to an
earlier position to find what went wrong.  If Kd7 then white grabs the h pawn.
If Bd7 then advancing the a pawn causes black more problems than it can handle
Jim



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