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Subject: Re: Test Position = Karjakin vs Kramnik, Dortmund 2004 [63. Ke2!]

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:44:46 07/28/04

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On July 28, 2004 at 17:25:05, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:

>     Karjakin vs Kramnik, Dortmund 2004
>    [D]8/8/8/p6k/2P5/3K2r1/6p1/6Q1 w
>Here Karjakin played 63. Kd4, escorting his pawn, which complicated the win.
>In his rapid post-game analysis here at ChessBase.com, GM Ramirez suggested
>63. Kd2 in a long winning line that was later corrected in minor fashion by Mig.
>
>Kasparov showed us a faster win with a better idea here, 63. Ke2! The white king
>goes over to attack the g-pawn so the white queen can escape her prison on g1.
>63...Kg4 64. c5 Kh3 65. Kf2 and Black is helpless. Shredder now announces
>mate in 19.
>
>Source ==> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1813

CM9_SKR finally decides on Ke2 after 0:33 on an AMD 2500. Note that it never
considers Kd4:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	2.06	1156		1.Ke2 Kg4 2.c5 Kf5
0:00	1/4	2.08	3583		1.Ke2 Kg6 2.Kf2 Rg5
0:00	1/5	2.00	9804		1.Ke2 a4 2.Kf2 Rg4 3.Qh2+ Kg6 4.Qd6+
					Kf5
0:00	1/6	2.00	21319		1.Ke2 a4 2.Kf2 Rg4 3.Qh2+ Kg6 4.Qd6+
					Kf5
0:00	1/7	2.06	57431		1.Ke2 a4 2.c5 a3 3.c6 a2 4.c7 a1=Q
					5.Qxa1 g1=Q 6.Qxg1 Rxg1 7.c8=Q
0:00	1/8	2.10	113081		1.Ke2 Kg4 2.c5 Kh3 3.Kf2 a4 4.c6
					a3 5.c7
0:00	2/9	2.04	208949		1.Ke2 Kg4 2.c5 Kh3 3.Kf2 a4 4.c6
					a3 5.c7 Rg8
0:01	2/9	2.13	320817		1.Kd2 a4 2.c5 Kg4 3.c6 Kh3 4.c7
					Rg8 5.Qb1 Rf8
0:02	3/10	2.15	583102		1.Kd2 a4 2.c5 Kg4 3.c6 Kh3 4.c7
					Rg8 5.Qe3+ Kh2 6.Qe4 Kg3
0:05	4/11	2.25	1640944		1.Kd2 Kh4 2.c5 Kh3 3.c6 Rg6 4.c7
					Rc6 5.Qe3+ Kh2 6.Qf4+ Kh1 7.Qh4+
					Kg1 8.Qg3 a4
0:08	5/12	1.98	2553286		1.Kd2 Kh4 2.c5 Kh3 3.c6 Rg6 4.c7
					Rc6 5.Qe3+ Kh2 6.Qf4+ Kh1 7.Qh4+
					Kg1 8.Qd4+ Kh2 9.Qe5+ Kh3 10.Qh8+
					Kg3
0:26	5/12	2.18	8252818		1.Kc2 Kg4 2.c5 Kh3 3.c6 Rg4 4.Qe3+
					Kh2 5.Qe5+ Rg3 6.c7 g1=Q 7.c8=Q
					Qf2+ 8.Kb1 Qg1+ 9.Ka2 Qf2+ 10.Ka1
0:33	5/12	2.36	10307673	1.Ke2 Kg4 2.c5 Kf5 3.Kf2 Rg4 4.Qb1+
					Kf6 5.Qb2+ Kf5 6.Qc2+ Kf6 7.Qc3+
					Ke6 8.Qb3+ Ke7 9.Qb7+ Kd8
0:43	6/13	2.94	13218954	1.Ke2 Kg4 2.c5 Kf5 3.Kf2 Rg4 4.Qb1+
					Ke6 5.Qb3+ Ke7 6.Qb7+ Kf6 7.Qf3+
					Kg5 8.Qd5+ Kh4 9.Qd8+ Kh5 10.Qh8+
					Kg5 11.Qg8+ Kh4 12.Qxg4+ Kxg4
1:23	7/14	3.79	25286272	1.Ke2 Kg4 2.c5 Kf5 3.Kf2 Rg8 4.Qb1+
					Kf6 5.Qa1+ Kf5 6.Kg1 Rg4 7.Qxa5
					Ke6 8.Qa2+ Kf6 9.Qf2+ Ke6 10.c6
2:38	8/15	4.22	48372426	1.Ke2 Kg4 2.c5 Kf5 3.Kf2 Rg8 4.c6
					Ke6 5.Qe1+ Kf7 6.c7 a4 7.Qa1 Rc8
					8.Qxa4 Ke7 9.Qe4+ Kd7

jm



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