Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:08:39 11/10/04
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On November 10, 2004 at 12:43:40, chandler yergin wrote: >Thank you for your input, and the Challenge. > >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 > >Rather than go through a long thread; let me present a summary of my position, >and clarify a few points. > >I use Analysis Modules as a tool. >There are however, many positions that they do not understand, this I bel;ieve >is one. > >I play Chess, I use Chess Programs as a tool. >Do I trust them? >Haa Haa.. No way! > >Now, from the Diagram, how can Black make progress? >1. Queen a pawn on the C file >2. Create a passed pawn on the Kingside > >Agreed? > >It's a simple matter of "Corresponding Squares". > >To Queen a pawn on the c file requires the support of the Black King. >Agreed? > > >When the Black King arrives at b2, the White King must be on d1 and his Bishop >controls c2. Black cannot make progress. > >For the Black King to intrude on the Kingside he must intrude the position. >Agreed? > >When the Black King arrives at g3 for example, the Corresponding Square for the >White King is f1. >Black cannot make progress, or create a passed pawn. > >Simple Chess! No It is not so simple. black has passed pawn in the c file and can generate another one in the f file. black has passed pawns in 2 files in the c file and in the f file and white cannot defend against both threats at the same time. The following position is also draw by your logic but it is not a draw. [D]8/8/7P/2p5/3b2k1/1Bp2p2/8/4K3 w - - 0 23 > >The Black and White Bishops just keep moving on their respective Diagonals >and cannot affect the outcome. > >Please consider the Strategic evaluation, and not the Computer evaluations. > >Even IF, and a big IF, Black does happen, through a White mistake, end up with a >passed Pawn on the h file, the White King simply moves to h1, and with the Black >Bishop of the wrong color, again it's a Draw! No It is not a draw because black has 2 more pawns in the c file and even if white sacrifice the bishop for one of them black has still one pawn in the c file. if white king go to the c file black may promote the h pawn or force white to sacrifice the bishop for it and it is again not a draw Uri
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