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 >> >> >> >> > > >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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