Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 04:11:26 03/19/03
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On March 19, 2003 at 06:46:56, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On March 19, 2003 at 06:19:18, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>On March 18, 2003 at 17:39:32, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On March 18, 2003 at 16:30:30, Joachim Rang wrote: >>> >>>>hm, very well. But how can white make progress on the kingside? >>> >>>Apparently you just read the last paragraph, but did NOT bother to analyze the >>>position at all. >>> >>>[D]8/8/4k1K1/2p1p3/2PbP1N1/8/8/8 b - - 0 9 >>> >>> >>>White will now play Kf6-h7-g5+, etc and win easily. However, >>>if there were no black pawn on c5, then Black would have sufficient >>>counterplay to hold the draw, since his King could use the c5-square >>>to attack White's pawn. >>> >>>Pichard >> >>I meant this position: >> >> >>[D]8/8/6k1/2p1p3/2P1P1K1/3N4/8/b7 w - - 0 1 >> >>I did analyze this position with Ruffian and tried several ideas to make >>progress on the kingside. Unfortunately I was unable to find a way to advance >>with my king. What is the plan in this position? >The idea is to get your White King to d5! by using your knight to chase the >Black King away and eventually win the e pawn, but IM Burgess failed to give the >correct continuation on his book. I also tried several lines with Fritz 8, >Hiarcs 8 and Shredder 7, but failed to win with White. I guess that IM Graham >Burgess did NOT tried this position himself before he stated that it was an easy >win for White. Now the reason why we buy this programs is to see if they can >help us analyze and learn from position such as this one. > >I already gave up on this position, since I can NOT find any top programs that >can help me here. > >PS: Probably against another IM like Burgess he can prove that it is an easy >win for White, but NOt against the top programs of today :-)) > >Pichard. > >>The position that you posted above is clear to me but I do not see a way to >>reach that position from the original one.
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