Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:25:03 01/18/04
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On January 18, 2004 at 02:27:35, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On January 18, 2004 at 01:25:52, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>[D]8/8/5pk1/5b2/7K/3R3p/7P/8 w - - 0 1 > >How on earth should White win this position? I see no way >to do this. Some reasons for my assumption: > >1.) >If White at some time takes the h3-pawn with the rook, >the pawn ending is a draw. > >2) >The only try would be to win Black's f6-pawn. But >this can't be done. > >3) >But even in the case that due to some Zugzwang >White wins the f6-pawn, the position still looks >drawn. > >Any counter arguments. >Kurt Yes If white can win the f6 pawn thanks to some zugzwang then white may try to play for mate later by trying to push black king to the last rank. defending the pawn h3 and defending against mate may be too much for black and white may win the pawn h3 and later the game. The evaluation of Yace suggest that it probably can see after deep search that white can win a pawn. Unfortunately I do not have the KRP vs KBP tablebases to verify if white usually wins without the pawn f6. Uri
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