Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 03:30:55 10/18/02
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On October 18, 2002 at 04:43:26, Mig Greengard wrote: >The only variations of interest are those than can refute these defensive >concepts: > >1. Giving up a rook for knight and pawn for a fortress. >2. Giving up both rooks for queen and pawn for a drawn f+g pawns vs N+h-pawn >endgame. >3. Giving up a rook for both b-pawns for a drawn R vs R+N endgame. > >Number three is the only one that seems to offer any chances for a black win >right now. But several GMs have looked at that ending in detail and have had no >success in winning it. According to Keene, he played an almost identical ending >with Mednis over three days (adjournments) and never won it. > >There may exist some fantastical lines with an attack on the white king using >the b-pawn as bait, or other possibilities with the queen still on the board, >but this seems unlikely at this point. > >Saludos, Mig Sorry, but I cannot follow the discussion today because I have to take exams the whole day (on Monday the new semester is starting...). Greetings from Jena University, Ingo Althofer.
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