Author: Chesster Fritz
Date: 05:47:10 01/15/04
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On January 15, 2004 at 01:45:45, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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 might be, but how can you be so certain? Have you done all the work to verify this conclusion? Hint, computers can't find their way in some endgame problems. GM's can and do a better job when confronted with draw like positions. I'm not saying this is a win or a draw, only that there might be a complex win for White, I'm not certain, and B's of opposite colour makes this ending tough to prove, if indeed Black is lost. > >> >>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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