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Subject: Re: Svidler resigns in drawn position?

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 22:45:45 01/14/04

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On January 15, 2004 at 00:19:10, Chesster Fritz wrote:

>On January 14, 2004 at 22:57:32, Sally Weltrop wrote:
>
>>[d]8/1B6/3k3p/pK4p1/P1P3P1/7P/5b2/8 b - - 0 49
>>
>>Svidler resigns!!!
>>
>>Looks like a draw to me and other engines that I have used.
>
>Yes it appears to be drawn, but I'm not so sure about that.
>Computers will be of little help solving this ending imo.
>
>White, even though there are Bishops of opposite colour, has an advanced passed
>pawn, and though it can't Queen, may be Black's undoing, caution at every turn
>must be used not to lose on the King-Side. With a very deep analysis, it may be
>a complex win for White. I wouldn't resign so quickly, but I'd be very troubled
>by this position if I were Black.
>
>Maybe this will turn up as a brilliant endgame study in the future.
>I'm interested on what both Kramnik and Svidler have to say about this game.

White's advantage is purely optical in nature. It's a stone cold draw.

>
>It's late here, but I may take a stab at it myself, albiet I doubt I'll come up
>with a definitive answer.
>
>This ending takes the highest level of technique, and I'm not Capablanca or
>Svidler!;-)
>
>Most likely we'll see some good analysis from these Grandmasters, (Not
>Capablanca) unhappily deceased;-), but from Kramnik, Svidler, and other GMs.
>
>Fritz



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