Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 14:43:54 07/29/99
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On July 29, 1999 at 14:41:45, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On July 29, 1999 at 14:33:30, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>On July 29, 1999 at 02:22:40, Terry Ripple wrote: >> >>>This was from an actual game:You have to pretend that you are playing this game >>>in an official tournament setting and you can`t be moving the pieces around on >>>the board except in your head and you have 5 min. to pick the correct multible- >>>choice answer and to show the correct moves to back up your answer! >>> >>>White pieces: Kc3,Bc2 and pawns at d4,f4 >>>Black " : Kf6,Bc4 " " " b6,d5 >>> >>>Choice A: (Be4) >>> " B: (Kd2) >>> >>>Good Luck, >>>Terry >> >> This looks like a dead draw, wheter white plays Kd2 or Be4 or Kb4 or Bb1. White >>can not force a win with either of your choices, and it is not striving to draw >>the game either. >>José. > > Sorry, white is lost after Be4, so the correct choice is Kd2. It is still not >better than the other moves I listed. >José. ----------- Hi Jose and everyone, White is lost after 1.Be4?? Bxe4 2.Kxc4 b5+! 3.Kc3 Ke6(can hold both pawns!) 4.Kd2 b4! 5.Kc2 e3 6.Kd3 b3 7.White resigns!! The move 1.Kd2! is the correct answer to Draw! And yes, there are other moves that do the same to draw. Hiarcs 7.32 chose under time control of 40/2hrs.- 1.Kb4 Be2 2.Bh7 Bf1 3.Ka4 Be2 4.Bb1 Ke6 5.Bc2 Bf1 6.Bb1 =(0.21) 15/30 What does your favorite program choose under these conditions? Regards,Terry --------------
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