Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 23:06:46 08/22/03
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On August 22, 2003 at 14:39:35, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >It is very easy, black puts his king of f6, then creates a passed pawn with a6 >and b5, and the captures all white pawns on the kingside. The only thing white >can try is to left black with an h-pawn, but that still loses. A posible >variation >1. gxh5? Ke7 2. h4 Kf6 3. Ke4 a6 4. h6 gxh6 5. h5 b5 6. axb5 axb5 7. Kd5 Kxf5 8. >Kc5 Kg5 9. Kxb5 Kg4 10. Kc4 Ke3 and black wins >White can also try leaving the pawn in h3 or h4, or moving the king first to f4 >instead of e4, but after 1. gxh5? black wins. >José. Indeed - here is how things actually went: [Event "Casual Game"] [Site "London, United Kingdom"] [Date "2003.08.19"] [Round "1"] [White "Chess Genius for PalmOS 1.6 Zire 71"] [Black "Alastair Scott"] [Result "0-1"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 Qb6 8.Na4 Qa5+ 9.c3 cxd4 10.b4 Qc7 11.Nxd4 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 b6 13.Be2 Bb7 14.O-O Be7 15.Qd3 O-O 16.Rad1 f6 17.exf6 Nxf6 18.Bd4 Ne4 19.Be5 Bd6 20.Bg4 Rae8 21.Bxd6 Nxd6 22.Rde1 Ne4 23.g3 Qc6 24.b5 Qc4 25.Qxc4 dxc4 26.Bf3 Nd6 27.Bxb7 Nxb7 28.Nb2 Nd6 29.a4 Rf5 30.Rd1 Ne4 31.Rfe1 Nxc3 32.Rc1 Nd5 33.Nxc4 Rff8 34.Ne5 Re7 35.Nc6 Rc7 36.Rxe6 Rfc8 37.Kg2 Kf7 38.Rd6 Nb4 39.h3 Nxc6 40.Rdxc6 Rxc6 41.bxc6 Ke6 42.Kf3 Kd6 43.Rd1+ Kxc6 44.Rc1+ Kd7 45.Rxc8 Kxc8 46.g4 Kd7 47.f5 h5 48.gxh5 Ke7 49.h4 Kf6 50.Kg4 a6 51.Kf4 b5 52.axb5 axb5 53.Ke3 Kxf5 54.Kd4 Kg4 55.Kd5 Kxh5 56.Kc5 Kxh4 57.Kb4 Kg3 58.Kc3 g5 59.Kb4 Kf2 60.Kxb5 g4 61.Kc6 g3 62.Kd5 g2 63.Kd4 g1=Q 64.Kd5 Qg4 65.Ke5 Ke3 66.Kd5 Qd4+ 67.Ke6 Kf4 68.Ke7 Qb6 69.Kd7 Ke5 70.Ke7 Qc7+ 71.Ke8 Kf6 72.Kf8 Qc8# 0-1 That said, more skilful players than me have found much subtlety in the position :) Alastair
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