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Subject: Re: Test: quiet move and Zugzwang

Author: Mihaly Szalai

Date: 09:35:42 07/29/04

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On July 28, 2004 at 20:17:31, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 28, 2004 at 19:38:16, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On July 28, 2004 at 18:44:03, Ignacio Santos Crespo wrote:
>>
>>>2. Bb6!
>>>
>>>1. Rb5+ Nb6 2. Bxb6
>>
>>2...Rh2 3.Kg3 Rxh1.
>>
>>Now what?
>>
>>jm
>
>
>I know this study
>
>2...Rh2 3.Kg4! Rxh1 4.Bg1+ with the idea 5.Rb1 and the black rook has no moves
>and the black king cannot move forever to white squares so white wins.
>
>Uri

Yes, I posted it on February 18 this year, even Kurt answered to it.
The author is Troitsky.

Find the nice win - test

[D]1knB4/8/7p/5R2/7K/8/3r4/7B w - - 0 1

White has a very nice play here:
1. Rb5+ Nb6 2. Bxb6! Rh2+ 3. Kg4! Rxh1 4. Bg1+! Kc7 5. Rb1! Kd7 6. Re1 Kc6 7.
Rd1
Kb5 8. Rc1 Ka4 9. Rb1 +-

I wonder how many engines can see this line and how fast.

Thanks
Mihaly



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