Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 09:33:07 11/10/04
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On November 10, 2004 at 11:57:03, Albert Silver wrote: >On November 10, 2004 at 10:33:26, chandler yergin wrote: > >>On November 10, 2004 at 06:21:19, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >> >>>On November 09, 2004 at 18:12:46, chandler yergin wrote: >>> >>>>On November 09, 2004 at 17:03:22, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >>>> >>>>>Completely correct. I didn't know it and must admit that I found it astonishing. >>>>> >>>>> Albert >>>>> >>>>>[D]8/2p5/5p1p/5Bp1/3k4/2p2PbP/4K1P1/8 b - - 0 45 >>>>> >>>>>[Event "URS-ch sf"] >>>>>[Site ""] >>>>>[Date "1973"] >>>>>[Round ""] >>>>>[White "Makarichev Sergey"] >>>>>[Black "Averbakh Yuri L"] >>>>>[Result "0-1"] >>>>>[Eco "C44"] >>>>>[Annotator ""] >>>>>[Source "EXT 2001"] >>>>>[SetUp "1"] >>>>>[FEN "8/2p5/5p1p/5Bp1/3k4/2p2PbP/4K1P1/8 b - - 0 45"] >>>>> >>>>>45...Ke5 46.Bc2 Kf4 47.Bb1 Bh2 48.Kf2 Bg1+ 49.Ke2 Kg3 50.Kf1 >>>>>Bf2 51.Bc2 f5 52.Bb1 f4 53.Bg6 Be3 54.Bc2 h5 55.Bf5 c5 56.Bg6 >>>>>h4 57.Bf5 g4 58.hxg4 h3 59.gxh3 Kxf3 60.g5 Kg3 61.g6 Bd4 62.h4 >>>>>f3 63.h5 Bg7 64.Ke1 f2+ 0-1 >>>>> >>>>>From good old Albert Silver. >>>>> >>>>>anthony >>>> >>>>You're showing me how the game went! >>>>My contention still is: "With Best Play, Black c-a-n-n-o-t force a Win! >>>>It's a Draw! >>>>I defy you or any Chess Program to force a Win to mate in this position! >>>>I have eaten Crow before.. I like it with Cream & Sugar. >>>>I also maintain, this is a position where Analysis Modules suck! >>>>CY >>> >>>Wow! >>> >>>The important thing to understand is that two pawns vs zero pawns with opposite >>>colored bishops is winning if the pawns have at least two files between them. >>> >>>Here, black is able to make the second passed pawn on the kingside by first >>>putting all his pawns there on dark squares - f4, g5 & h4. >>> >>>The bishop sacrifices are cool - but maybe not necessary. >>> >>>Vas >> >>Hi, >>Thanks for your comments. >>You are explaning how Black won in the game... I see that. >>You miss my point however, i said: >>"With Best Play, Black c-a-n-n-o-t force a Win!" >> >>I stand by that; the Position is a Draw! >>The Doubled pawns on the c file can never queen. >>Black cannot make a passed pawn on the Kingside without intrusion by his King. >>White prevents that. >>Forget the Game! >>Analyze the Position; that's the point of the discussion. >>ok? >>CY > >The problem is that white has no way to prevent the Black king's intrusion. >Averbakh's plan and tactics are plain brilliant from beginning to end. Note the >nice tactics on 48...Bg1+! and 51...f5! and of course 57...g4!! > >Just for your information, I played out this plan against Shredder 7.04 on my >Athlon 2400XP+, letting it think for at least a minute for each move (reaching >22 plies depth on average) and had no problem winning. If you think you can >improve on white's play we can duke it out in this thread (which will stay >discretely at the bottom of CCC and shouldn't bother anyone) and you can see for >yourself, as well as any other doubting Thomases. Here's the score: > >[Event "?"] >[Site "?"] >[Date "????.??.??"] >[Round "?"] >[White "Shredder 7.04"] >[Black "Albert Silver"] >[Result "*"] >[SetUp "1"] >[FEN "8/2p5/5p1p/5Bp1/3k4/2p2PbP/4K1P1/8 b - - 0 1"] >[PlyCount "43"] > >1... Ke5 2. Bh7 Kf4 3. Be4 h5 4. Bd3 h4 5. Be4 c5 6. Kd3 Be1 7. Ke2 Bd2 8. Bd3 >Kg3 9. Kf1 Be3 10. Bc2 Bf2 11. Bd3 f5 12. Ke2 f4 13. Kf1 Be3 14. Bc2 g4 15. >hxg4 h3 16. gxh3 Kxf3 17. Bd1+ Kg3 18. h4 Bd4 19. h5 Bf6 20. h6 f3 21. Bb3 Kxg4 >22. Ke1 Bd4 * > >You can challenge me to the position after 1...Ke5 if you like, > >[D]8/2p5/5p1p/4kBp1/8/2p2PbP/4K1P1/8 w - - 0 2 > >and feel free to use all the engines you like. This is only to say I think the >plan is clear and there is nothing to do to stop it. > > Albert The one thing white can try is to play g2-g4 and give up the h-pawn. For example, 1. .. Ke5 2. Bc2 Kf4 3. Bg6 Bh2 4. g4. I agree that Averbakh's plan is quite amazing - it involves black putting every pawn on a dark square. Vas
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