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Subject: Re: Is it a draw?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 12:58:31 09/02/02

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On September 02, 2002 at 15:37:40, Uri Blass wrote:

>The following position happen in a game of movei against fortress.
>
>Movei main problem in that tournament is the endgame and I find that it missed
>a lot of points because of blundering in the endgame
>
>I think that Movei could save a draw in the following position.
>Am I right?
>
>Here is the position and yace's line after many hours.
>Movei played 62.Kg4 that is a losing move.
>
>I wonder if Rb7 was enough for a draw.
>some analysis suggest that it is a draw but I am not sure.
>
>Another question is if Rb7 is the only drawing move.
>I think to include the position in a test suite based on movei's games and I
>need to know the drawing moves(the position is simple enough to get a definite
>consequence based on human analysis but I do not want to waste hours about it
>and I prefer if a good player can tell me based on knowledge what are the
>drawing moves.
>
>Movei 0.0.72h - Fortress 1.62
>[D]8/P3R3/8/3p4/3kpK2/8/8/r7 w - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Yace 0.99.56:
>62.Rb7 e3 63.Kf3 Ra6 64.Re7 Rf6+ 65.Kg4 Rf8 66.Rb7 e2 67.Rb8 e1Q 68.Rxf8 Qe2+
>69.Kg3 Qd3+ 70.Kf2 Qc2+ 71.Kg3 Qc7+ 72.Rf4+ Ke3 73.a8Q Qxf4+ 74.Kh3 d4 75.Qa7
>Kd2
>  -+  (-1.58)   Depth: 19   00:34:49  662746kN
>62.Rb7 e3 63.Kf3 Ra6 64.Re7 Rf6+ 65.Kg4 Rf8 66.Rb7 e2 67.Rb8 e1Q 68.Rxf8 Qe2+
>69.Kg3 Qd3+ 70.Kg4 Qd1+ 71.Kg5 Qd2+ 72.Rf4+ Ke5 73.a8Q
>  µ  (-1.36)   Depth: 20   01:44:46  2003229kN
>62.Rb7 e3 63.Kf3 Ra6 64.Re7 Rf6+ 65.Kg4 Rf8 66.Rb7 e2 67.Rb8 e1Q 68.Rxf8 Qe2+
>69.Kg3 Qd3+ 70.Kg4 Qd1+ 71.Kh4 Qd2 72.a8Q Ke5
>  µ  (-0.96)   Depth: 21   04:41:25  1200057kN
>62.Rb7 e3 63.Kf3 Ra6 64.Re7 Rf6+ 65.Kg4 Rf8 66.Rb7 e2 67.Rb8 e1Q 68.Rxf8 Qe2+
>69.Kg3 Qd3+ 70.Kg4 Qd1+ 71.Kh4
>  µ  (-0.96)   Depth: 21   04:59:56  1478887kN
>
>Uri

Chessmaster 9000, on a PIII-733, says:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	-0.80	1084		1.Rd7 e3 2.Kf3
0:00	1/4	-0.64	3457		1.Rd7 Rf1+ 2.Kg3 Rg1+ 3.Kf2 Ra1
					4.Re7
0:00	1/5	-0.74	9303		1.Rd7 Rf1+ 2.Kg3 Rg1+ 3.Kf2 Ra1
					4.Ke2 Ra2+ 5.Kd1
0:00	2/6	-0.70	31879		1.Rd7 Ra2 2.Rg7 Kd3 3.Rg3+ Kc4
					4.Rg7 Ra1
0:00	2/6	-0.65	47070		1.Rb7 Kd3 2.Rb3+ Kc2 3.Rb7 Ra3
					4.Rd7
0:01	3/7	-0.67	77332		1.Rb7 Ra3 2.Re7 Kc5 3.Rb7 Kc6 4.Re7
0:01	4/8	-0.68	136614		1.Rb7 Kc5 2.Re7 Kb6 3.Rd7 Rxa7
					4.Rxd5 Re7 5.Ke3
0:04	5/9	-0.77	328179		1.Rb7 Kc5 2.Re7 Ra3 3.Ke5 Ra5 4.Rd7
					Kb6 5.Kd4 Rxa7 6.Rxd5
0:07	6/10	-0.72	621847		1.Rb7 Kc5 2.Re7 Ra3 3.Ke5 e3 4.Kf4
					d4 5.Kf3 Ra1
0:12	7/11	-0.69	1239078		1.Rb7 Kc5 2.Re7 Ra3 3.Rh7 Kb6 4.Rd7
					Kc6 5.Rh7 Kd6 6.Rg7
0:35	8/12	-0.63	3751010		1.Rb7 Kc5 2.Re7 Ra3 3.Rh7 Kb6 4.Rd7
					Rxa7 5.Rxd5 Re7 6.Ke3 Re6 7.Rd1
1:11	9/13	-0.67	7592056		1.Rb7 Kc5 2.Re7 Ra3 3.Rh7 Kb6 4.Rd7
					Rxa7 5.Rxd5 Re7 6.Ke3 Re6 7.Rd1 Kc5
2:24	10/14	-0.67	16055322	1.Rb7 Kc5 2.Rc7+ Kb6 3.Rd7 Kc6
					4.Re7 Kd6 5.Rf7 Ra2 6.Ke3 Kc6 7.Rh7
					Kb6 8.Rd7 Ra3+ 9.Ke2 Rxa7 10.Rxd5

jm



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