Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 14:28:49 03/17/03
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On March 17, 2003 at 17:21:47, Jorge Pichard wrote: >How many top programs will play the correct Qxe3+ in this position without its >ending database activated. > >This game was played between Keres vs Botvininnik in the 1948 championship. >Here Botvinnik calculated a straight-forward way to win by simply exchanging off >the queens. Here most programs would see this as a blunder by weakening the >position and leaving Black only slightly better. As a matter of fact most top >programs of today without it end game database would play Qd1? > >[D]8/kp6/P5p1/2p1p3/2PpP3/3P3Q/4q3/6K1 b - - 0 1 The correct continuation would be 52...Qxe3+ 53 Qxe3 dxe3 54.axb7 Kxb7 55.Kg2 Kb6 56.Kf3 Ka5 57.Kxe3 Kb4 58.Kd2? g5! 0-1 [D]8/8/8/2p1p1p1/1kP1P3/3P4/3K4/8 w - - 0 8
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