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Subject: Pawn endings [blocked pawns]

Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes

Date: 11:50:59 01/26/00


  Moravec 1941 White to play and win
[D]7k/6p1/6P1/8/8/p5K1/P7/8 w - -
  Immediately going after the a-pawn only leads to a draw.
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  Sackmann  White to play and win
[D]8/8/2p5/k1p1K3/p1P5/P7/8/8 w - -
  1.Kf5[the key move,a strategic withdrawal to gain the opposition]
  I wonder how computers would fare on these positions.  JAFM



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