Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 23:04:09 08/03/03
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On August 04, 2003 at 00:42:26, Harald Faber wrote: >On August 03, 2003 at 16:26:22, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>On August 03, 2003 at 12:56:58, Harald Faber wrote: >> >>>Taken from the current item of Schach Magazin 64 from a training camp with >>>Dvoretski. >>>Which program finds this nice way to win? >>> >>>[Event "?"] >>>[Site "?"] >>>[Date "2003.08.03"] >>>[Round "?"] >>>[White "?"] >>>[Black "?"] >>>[Result "1-0"] >>>[SetUp "1"] >>>[FEN "8/8/6kp/p7/1p4P1/1P3K2/P1P5/8 w - -"] >>> >>>1. c4 bxc3 2. Ke3 Kg5 3. a4 Kxg4 4. b4 axb4 5. Kd3!! 1-0 >> >>Hi Harald, >> >>IsiChess (XP2.8+) needs 10 seconds to find more than draw with Ke3. Appropriate >>winning score after 0:28 (+3.75). >> >>But it stays with 1.Ke3 and did not change to 1.c4 until i stopped after 5 >>minutes with +7: >> >>1.Ke3 Kg5 2.c4 bxc3 3.a4 >> >>even after playing 1.Ke3 Kf6 i find winning score soon. >>Is 1.c4 really a faster win, or do i have some kind of path history problem? > > >Of course this is only a transposition if you play 1.c4 bxc3 2.Ke3 Kg5 or 1.Ke3 >Kg5 2.c4 bxc3 so both lines can be considered as correct. I see that this is only a transposition. My question was, whether black has a "better" reply than 1...Kg5 after 1.Ke3. If i look to Ed's result/comment, it seemes that 1.c4 is slighly better than 1.Ke3. Gerd > > >>Regards, >>Gerd >> >>btw. Bologan seems to be a Caro-Kann expert... > >Aha, will check it. :-)
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