Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 15:09:17 12/06/03
I just bought a copy of Basic Chess Endings revised by GM Benko and decided to
try out a few positions. I had the original version but it had so many mistakes
I never trusted any of the positions due to the possibility it was flawed.
Hopfully GM Benko has made all the corrections and this classic will regain its
prominence. So far neither Crafty, CM9 SKR, or Genius 7 can play this ending
correctly at 1 min/move.
Whoever plays wins.
[Event "BCE No. 132"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2003.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[FEN "4k3/5ppp/8/8/8/8/PPP5/3K4 w - -"]
{The main variation is } 1. Ke2 Kd7 2. Kf3 Kc6 3. a4 h5 4. c4 f5 5. Kg3 Kb6 6.
b4 g5 {or ...g6 7.a5+ Ka6 8.c5 Kb5 9.Kg2 g5 (or 9...h4 10.Kh2! f4 11.Kg1!! g5
12.Kg2 g4 13.Kg1, etc.) 10.Kg3 g4 11.Kf2! f4 12.Kg2 h4 13.Kg1!! f3 14.Kf2 h3
15.Kg3, and now the Black king must move, allowing a White pawn to queen.} 7.
a5+ Ka6 {7...Kb7 8.c5} 8. c5 h4+ 9. Kh3 f4 {or 9...Kb5 10.Kh2, as in the
variation above} 10. c6 f3 11. b5+ Ka7 12. c7 g4+ {or 12...Kb7 13.b6 g4+
14.Kh2 g3+ 15.Kg1 h3 16.a6+ Kc8 17.a7} 13. Kxg4 f2 14. c8=Q f1=Q 15. b6+
{mate} 1-0
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