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Subject: Re: K+P ending in practical play

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 19:07:07 10/26/98

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On October 26, 1998 at 14:57:28, blass uri wrote:
>
>On October 26, 1998 at 12:43:26, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>[White "Ferret"]
>>[Black "Box"]
>>[Result "0-1"]
>>[ECO "C75"]
>>[WhiteElo "2986"]
>>[BlackElo "2969"]
>>[Opening "Ruy Lopez: modern Steinitz defense"]
>>[NIC "RL.11"]
>>[Time "19:46:56"]
>>[TimeControl "300+0"]
>>[SetUp "1"]
>>[FEN "8/6pp/4pk2/4p3/2PqP3/3Q2P1/4KP2/8 w - - 18 62"]
>>
>>62. Qxd4 exd4 63. f4 e5 64. c5
>
>I think that this is the losing mistake
>64.fxe5+ is leading to a draw

64.Kd3 also looks drawing after the line:
 64.Kd3 h5 65.fxe5+ Kxe5+ 66.c5 g5 67.c6 kd6 68.Kxd4 h4 69.e5+ Kxc6 70.gxh4 gxh4

I ran the analysis several times, and Crafty alternated between this and the
64.fxe5+ line.

Either of these lines is found fairly quickly (~10 seconds) on a PII 300.

Jeremiah

>Fritz5 and Junior5 can find 64.fxe5 in a short time(less than 25 seconds on
>pentium200MMX)
>
>Uri



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