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Subject: Re: Is this a winning sacrifice?

Author: Andreas Stabel

Date: 06:50:54 03/25/03

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On March 25, 2003 at 09:44:34, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On March 25, 2003 at 09:27:12, Andreas Stabel wrote:
>
>>On March 25, 2003 at 08:20:10, Joachim Rang wrote:
>>
>>>Alexander Kure posted a position from a game he played:
>>>
>>>[d]8/p3b3/1k6/4p2p/K1Pp2pP/3P2P1/3N4/8 b - - 0 1
>>>
>>>He played Bxh4 and gave the following winning line:
>>>
>>>1...Bxh4 2. gxh4 g3 3. Nf3 g2 4. Kb4 a5 5. Kb3 Kc5 6. Ng1 e4 7. dxe4 a4
>>>and the 3 black passers are too much for white to handle.
>>>
>>>however 1...Bxh4 2. gxh4 g3 3. c5 is an intersting try.
>>>
>>>Kure wrote: 3. c5 Kc6 4. Kb4 g2 5. Nf3 Kc7! and white is in a kind of zugzwang
>>>position, e.g. 6. Kc4 a5 7. Kb3 Kb7! is winning for black.
>>>
>>>but I doubt that. A possible continuation is
>>>8.Nf3-g1 Kb7-c6 9.Kb3-c4 a5-a4 10.Kc4-b4 e5-e4 11.Kb4xa4 e4xd3 12.Ka4-b3 Kc6xc5
>>>13.Kb3-b2 and draw...
>>>
>>>Vincent of course already proved it, that it is winning for black, but won't
>>>probably tell us, since we poor guys can only look at a programs output and have
>>>no understanding of chess :-( So I fear we have to prove it ourselve.
>>>
>>>What are xour opinions? Note: There are zugzwang motives, so don't simply look
>>>on the evaluation, but play the lines further to see what happens.
>>
>>After 1... Bxh4 2. gxh4 g3 crafty has the following analysis: (4-man EGTBs)
>>20->   6:44  -2.56   3. c5+ Kb7 4. Kb4 g2 5. Nf3 a5+ 6.
>>                     Kb3 Kc7 7. c6 Kd6 8. Kc4 a4 9. Kb5
>>                     e4 10. dxe4 d3 11. e5+ Kc7 12. e6 d2
>>                     13. e7 d1=Q 14. e8=Q Qb3+ 15. Kc5 Qxf3
>>
>>
>>Regards
>>Andreas
>
>Play it on, with other moves for white. 4. Kb4 is loosing. 4.Nf3 and after g2
>5.Ng1 holds. Craftys evaluation isn't trustable. Play 4. Nf3 g2 and 5. Ng1 and
>then go further until move 10 or 12 and you will see, that its evaluation drops
>suddently to 0.00.

After looking at crafty's PV I would say that the point here is that white
won't get into zugzwang because white always has the possibility of
moving Ng1 - Nh3 - Ng1 etc.

Regards
Andreas



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