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Subject: A key position

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 03:21:33 10/17/02

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On October 17, 2002 at 04:51:28, Christophe Drieu wrote:

[D]8/8/8/p3k2p/P3p3/2P1KpPP/8/8 b - - 0 7

Black draws this. The engines that play Rxf3 seem to give this
a big white plus score.

The key is that although black can't catch both white pawns,
when capturing the c3 one, he can force the white king away
and promote one of his connected passers, apparently going into
a drawn queen endgame.

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GCP



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