Author: Günther Simon
Date: 10:19:29 04/17/03
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On April 17, 2003 at 13:15:09, Günther Simon wrote:
>On April 17, 2003 at 12:55:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Black was winning at move 170 and earlier. Here is the annotated output for
>>move 170
>>and beyond:
>>
>>170. Re6
>> ({19:-4.55} 170. Re6 Kd7 171. Rb6 Ke8 172. Rb2 Ke7 173. Re2+
>>Kd7 174. Re5 Kc6 175. Re8 Kd6 176. Re4 Rf5 177. Rh4 Rf3 $19)
>>
>>170. ... Kc8
>> ({18:-0.01} 170. ... Kc8 171. Re7 Kb8 172. Rd7 Ka8 173. Rd4 h2
>>174. Rh4 Rf5 175. Rxh2 $10)
>> ({18:-4.42} 170. ... Kd7 171. Rb6 Ke8 172. Rb2 Ke7 173. Re2+
>>Kd7 174. Re5 Kc6 175. Ra5 Kd6 176. Ra2 Rf8 177. Ra6+ Kc5 178. Ra5+ Kc4 179. Rh5
>>Rf3 180. Ra5 $19)
>>171. Re7
>> ({19:-0.01} 171. Re7 Kb8 172. Rh7 Ka8 173. Re7 h2 174. Rh7
>>h1=Q+ 175. Rxh1 $10)
>>
>>171. ... Kb8
>> ({19:-0.01} 171. ... Kb8 172. Rd7 Ka8 173. Rh7 h2 174. Rxh2
>>$10)
>>172. Rg7
>>
>>Kc8 turned it into an instant draw. Kd7 held on to -4.42. There were lots of
>>other places
>>where Crafty thought there were better moves, but this was a key mistake...
>
>
>IMHO the position is already dead draw in move 170 and if you would
>feed Crafty with possible lines back and fourth I am sure he will
>see it too...
>The Black K can go to g7 and force the W rook to let him out but then
>he watches the h-pawn when Black K goes until h2! but then he will be
>locked again as the W rook defends simply the g-file and there is no
>way than to reach a 5 piece draw rook endgame.
>
>Regards,
>Günther Simon
BTW I just want to add that this game is from one of my tourneys
to make a bit of advertisement for those who are still interested
in real Winboard tournaments :)
http://home.t-online.de/home/g.simon.rgbg/
Günther
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