Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:33:25 10/03/02
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On October 03, 2002 at 16:11:25, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 03, 2002 at 14:33:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 03, 2002 at 01:58:09, Janos Keinrath wrote: >> >>>On October 03, 2002 at 00:53:47, Mike Byrne wrote: >>> >>>It's great. >>>I tried with Junior and Crafty, but neither want to play 1.Qd3. >> >> >>Qd3 isn't the only way to win. b4 is more than good enough and is what >>Crafty likes... >> >>This was the first move I considered as a human, followed by Qd3 to force >>the trade of queens. Either should be enough. I posed this to an IM and he >>suggested b4 himself. When I mentioned Qd3 he aaid "that's ok too but it >>causes an unnecessary pawn weakness. > >I am surprised. >Qd3 is the only move that force trading queens so it is the first move to >consider. > >b4 does not force trading queens. I hope I didn't imply that it did. But b4 is certainly a way to win as the black queen is not a threat to produce a perpetual check in the present position, and the white passer + queen will be imposible to stop as the king is on the wrong side of the board. >It also wins but I thought that it is obvious for strong humans that if there is >a way to force a pawn endgame this way is analyzed first and only if it does not >work you consider other lines. > >Uri I just observed "b4, I get a passer, my queen can escort it down the board, black can't do a thing to stop it."
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