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Subject: Re: where are the difficult test positions ? please no positions that we

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:13:22 11/08/05

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On November 08, 2005 at 14:11:12, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>
>I made 2 mistakes :
>Here is the key for this one :
>
>8/8/4kpp1/3p1b2/p6P/2B5/6P1/6K1 b - - c0 "Hardest";
>Bh3!
>
>Topalov,V (2740) - Shirov,A (2710) [D85]
>Linares 15th Linares (10), 04.03.1998
>Ftacnik :
> 47...Bh3!! Fascinating idea of Shirov, since black has to push his two pawns
>a4,d5 as quickly as possible. The bishop would obstruct the way of the king on
>the natural square e4, on h3 it wins a precious tempo. [ 47...a3 48.Kf2 a2
>49.Ke3 Bg4 50.g3 Kf5 51.Bd4÷;
> 47...Be4 Shirov -+ 48.Kf2 Kf5 49.g3÷] 48.gxh3 [ 48.Kf2 Kf5 49.Kf3 Bxg2+ 50.Kxg2
>Ke4 51.Bxf6 d4 52.Be7 Kd3 53.Kf2 Kc2 54.Bb4 d3-+] 48...Kf5 49.Kf2 Ke4 50.Bxf6 [
>50.Ke2 a3 51.Kd2 d4 52.Ba1 f5-+] 50...d4 51.Be7 [ 51.Ke2? a3-+] 51...Kd3! 52.Bc5
>Kc4 53.Be7 [ 53.Bxd4 Kxd4 54.Ke2 Kc3 55.Kd1 Kb2-+] 53...Kb3 [ 53...Kb3 54.Bc5 d3
>55.Ke3 Kc2 56.Bb4 a3-+]  0-1
>
>and for this one :
>1r3rk1/3b1p1p/pp1p1p1Q/n1q1p3/2P1P3/P1PB1N2/6PP/1R3RK1 w - - bm Nd4;
>Only Nd4 is possible because king is in check.
>
>Thanks for testing , Dann !
>
>On November 08, 2005 at 13:31:38, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>b2r3r/4Rp1p/p2q1np1/1p1P4/kP1Q4/P4PPB/2P4P/1K6 w - - bm Ra7;
>>r3r1k1/1p3pp1/p1bp1b1B/2q1n3/2PN4/1P5P/2BR1QP1/5RK1 w - - bm b4;
>>4RQ2/5p2/2q2kp1/3p4/3P2PP/8/1K6/8 b - - c0 "Draw";
>>8/3P3k/n2K3p/2p3n1/1b4N1/2p1p1P1/8/3B4 w - - bm Nf6+;
>>rnb2rk1/pp2bppp/2p5/q7/4NN2/4B1QP/PPP3P1/2KR3R w - - bm Rd5;
>>r3k2r/4b2p/p1n3pN/1p1q1p2/5B2/3p1P2/PP4PP/2RQR2K w kq - bm Rxc6;
>>1r3rk1/3b1p1p/pp1p1p1Q/n1q1p3/2P1P3/P1PB1N2/6PP/1R3RK1 w - - bm Nd4 Nh4;
>>1r6/4k3/r2p2p1/2pR1p1p/2P1pP1P/pPK1P1P1/P7/1B6 b - - id Brzozka - Bronstein;
>>bm b8b3;
>>8/8/4kpp1/3p1b2/p6P/2B5/6P1/6K1 b - - c0 "Hardest";
>>r1b2r1k/4qp1p/p2ppb1Q/4nP2/1p1NP3/2N5/PPP4P/2KR1BR1 w - - id "Kholmov -
>>Bronstein"; bm d4c6;
>>rqb1rnk1/4n1pp/2p5/2PpPpPP/1p3N2/1P1BP3/1BQ5/1K4RR w - - id "Bischoff -
>>Nogueiras"; bm e5e6;
>>r2q1rk1/pp2bpp1/4p2p/2pPB2P/2P3n1/3Q2N1/PP3PP1/2KR3R w - - id "Karpov -
>>Huebner"; bm e5g7;
>>r2q1rk1/3nbpp1/4p2p/p1p1P3/1p1P3P/3B1b1R/PPQB1PP1/R3K3 w Q - id "Portisch -
>>Johannessen"; bm d2h6;
>>...


This one seems to be the same idea as WAC.230 (sac a rook to get a passed pawn,
else the wall is impenetrable:
[D]1r6/4k3/r2p2p1/2pR1p1p/2P1pP1P/pPK1P1P1/P7/1B6 b - - id Brzozka - Bronstein;
bm b8b3;

Since many programs can solve WAC.230 now, I am surprised that none of them can
see the solution to this problem.  Are you sure that the rook is compensated?




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