Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 11:52:08 08/23/03
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On August 23, 2003 at 02:06:46, Alastair Scott wrote: >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 I think 50. Kf4 is better than Kg4, but it seems like either move should be able to hold a draw in the end. >51.Kf4 b5 52.axb5 axb5 53.Ke3 Kxf5 54.Kd4 Kg4 55.Kd5 Kxh5 56.Kc5 Kxh4 57.Kb4 Kg3 52. axb5 is a complete blunder immediately losing the game. Much better is a5. >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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