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Subject: Interesting endgame position

Author: Kim Roper Jensen

Date: 09:04:47 02/21/04


Hi

While playing through some fischer games I got this endgame position from
Fischer - Lajos Portisch, Interzonal, Stockholm 1962

[D] 8/pp2kp2/8/2p1PK2/2P2P2/1P5R/8/4r3 w - - 0 1

The keymove to find is 1 Rd3 !! which in Andrew Soltis book about Fischer gets 2
exclamation points, but after analysing with crafty im not sure that it really
is the only winnning move(one thing though, i dont have any endgame tablebases).

Is anyone getting a winning score here(with or without endgame tablebases) ??

Wcrafty  WB2 122 MB: on 1.5Ghz Centrino
 9   00:00  0,74   Rh3d3 Re1h1 Kf5e4 b7b6 Ke4f5 Rh1h5+ Kf5g4 Rh5h1 Rd3d6 Rh1h2
10   00:00  0,73   Rh3d3 Re1b1 Kf5e4 b7b6 Rd3h3 a7a6 Rh3g3 Rb1d1 Rg3g7 Ke7e6
11   00:01  0,72   Rh3d3 Re1b1 Rd3g3 Rb1e1 Rg3f3 Re1g1 Rf3e3 a7a6 Re3d3 Rg1g2
Rd3d6
12   00:02  0,70   Rh3d3 Re1h1 Rd3d5 b7b6 Rd5d3 Rh1h6 Kf5e4 a7a6 Ke4d5 f7f6 f4f5
Rh6h5 e5xf6+ Ke7xf6
12   00:04  0,72   Rh3f3 Re1g1 Rf3e3 a7a6 Re3d3 Rg1g6 Kf5e4 Rg6g2 Rd3d6 Rg2g1
12   00:05  0,73   Rh3h8 Re1b1 Rh8h7 Rb1e1 Rh7h3 Re1d1 Kf5e4
13   00:08  0,73   Rh3h8 Re1b1 Rh8h7 Rb1e1 Rh7h3 Re1d1 Kf5e4 Rd1e1+ Ke4d5 b7b6
Rh3h8 Re1e3 Rh8a8 Re3d3+ Kd5c6
14   00:17  0,73   Rh3h8 Re1b1 Rh8h7 Rb1e1 Rh7h3 Re1d1 Rh3g3 Rd1e1 Rg3h3
15   00:45  0,73   Rh3h8 Re1b1 Rh8h7 Rb1e1 Rh7h3 Re1d1 Rh3g3 Rd1e1 Rg3h3
16   01:58  0,83   Rh3h8 Re1b1 Rh8c8 Rb1xb3 Rc8c7+ Ke7e8 Rc7xc5 Ke8d7 Kf5f6
Rb3f3 Rc5d5+ Kd7e8 f4f5 a7a6 e5e6 f7xe6 Kf6xe6 Rf3e3+ Rd5e5 Re3xe5+ Ke6xe5 Ke8d7
17   07:36  0,79   Rh3h8 Re1b1 Rh8c8 Rb1xb3 Rc8c7+ Ke7e8 Rc7xc5 a7a6 Rc5c7 Rb3b4
c4c5 a6a5 e5e6 f7xe6+ Kf5xe6 Rb4e4+ Ke6d6 Re4d4+ Kd6e5 Rd4d7 Rc7xd7 Ke8xd7 f4f5
18   12:04  0,68   Rh3h8 Re1b1 Rh8c8 Rb1xb3 Rc8c7+ Ke7e8 Rc7xc5 Ke8d7 Kf5f6
Rb3f3 f4f5 Rf3f4 Rc5d5+ Kd7e8 c4c5 a7a5 e5e6 f7xe6 Kf6xe6 Rf4e4+ Rd5e5 Re4xe5+
Ke6xe5 a5a4
18   41:00  0,74   Rh3d3 Re1h1 Rd3d5 b7b6 Rd5d3 Rh1h2 Rd3g3 Rh2h5+ Kf5e4 Rh5h8
Rg3g7 Rh8h3 f4f5 Rh3h4+ Ke4f3 Ke7f8 Rg7g4 Rh4xg4 Kf3xg4 a7a6 Kg4f4
19   56:01  0,74   Rh3d3 Re1h1 Rd3d5 b7b6 Rd5d3 Rh1h2 Rd3g3 Rh2h5+ Kf5e4 Rh5h8
Rg3e3 Rh8h2 Re3c3 Ke7e6 Rc3d3 Rh2e2+ Ke4f3 Re2e1 Rd3d6+ Ke6e7 Kf3f2 Re1h1
19   01:23:51  1,03   Rh3h8 Re1b1 Rh8c8 Rb1xb3 Rc8c7+ Ke7e8 Rc7xc5 Ke8d7 Kf5f6
Rb3f3 f4f5 Rf3f4 Rc5d5+ Kd7e8 Rd5b5 b7b6 c4c5 Rf4c4 e5e6 f7xe6 f5xe6 Rc4xc5





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