Author: Brian Katz
Date: 10:40:23 01/15/04
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On January 15, 2004 at 12:19:48, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On January 15, 2004 at 12:02:55, Brian Katz wrote: > >>Correction it is Speelman who found a forced win after 1..Kc7 >> >>I accidently mentioned Michael Steen rather than Speelman. >>Brian > >After 49...Kc7 50.Ba6 (or any other Bishop move) 50...Kd6= and if instead 50.Ka6 >Bg1=. Read what I wrote carefully and you will see that the draw is quite >trivial. > >BTW, there is no way White can force his way to the h6 pawn with his King as >I've indicated elsewhere in this thread. How about in this line? 1...Kc7 2.Ba6 Be1 3.c5 Bd2 4.Kc4 Kc6 5.Bb5+ Kc7 6.Kd5 Bb4 7c6 Kd8 8.Bf1 Kc7 9.Bg2 Bc3 10.Ke6 Bb4 11.Kf7 Be1 12.Kg6 Kd6 13.Kxh5 Bh4 14.Kg6 Kc7 15.Kf5 Kd6 16.Be4 Kc7 17.Kd6 Bf2 18.Kd5 Bg3 19.Kc5 Be1 20.Kb5 Bd2 21.h4 gxh4 22.Bg2 Bf4 (22...Kc8 23.Kb6 Bf4 24.Kxa5...) 23.Kxa5 h3 24.Be4 h2 25.Kb5 Be3 26.a5 Kd6 27.a6 Kc7 28.g5! Bd4 29.g6...and Black is busted. BUT perhaps you are right. Black allows the a-pawn to be captured then the only way white can make progress is to give back one of the Queenside pawns and that would be a forced DRAW. Great position for analysis!!! Brian
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