Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:41:59 01/07/04
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On January 07, 2004 at 05:42:14, Oreopoulos Kostas wrote: >[D] 8/5k2/3p2pp/2pPp1p1/1pP3P1/4K3/1PB5/8 w - - 0 1 > >This is an endgame position that occured in one of my games. >If white plays the correct move is Be4 blocking the e4 pawn and winning. >On any other move just e4 with a draw. > >Is there any chess program that considers Be4 or e4 if it is black to move? > >The idea is to move the king to c6 but if the e5 square is empty the black king >can walk in through e5. > >Tiger 15 does not find it > > > > A question Black's h5 doesn't help, as white ignores it, and if black pushes to h4 creating a protected passer on h4, the white bishop holds it back. After h5, gxh5 gives black an entry so white doesn't want to do that, but if he doesn't, can not black play hxg4 and now black has a king-side entry square if white tries to walk to the queen-side? So I don't see how white is going to be able to leave the kingside with the white g-pawn gone, as black can push its g-pawn, make white sac the bishop for the first one, and then the second/third walk in. IE this looks drawn to me, without computer analysis. For example, you play Be4, I play h5. Now what do you do to win? I may be overlooking something simple, as I didn't spend a lot of time looking, but it doesn't look promising to me...
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