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Subject: Re: A difficult for computers test position

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 10:28:32 01/07/04

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On January 07, 2004 at 10:41:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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
>>
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>
>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...

I analysed with hiarcs 9 and a friend (>2200) (yes i was the weakest part ;) )

And we found 1.Be4 h5 2.Bf3! and white wins



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