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Subject: Re: A couple positions from today's ICC tourney games

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 11:20:45 01/31/00

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On January 31, 2000 at 04:07:30, Harald Faber wrote:

>On January 31, 2000 at 00:42:31, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>Nimzo vs. Crafty
>>[D]8/8/1pp5/3k1p1p/Pp1p1P2/1P4PP/2P2K2/8 w - -
>>
>>Nimzo played Kf3 here and ended up losing.  Ke2 might draw here.  Does it?

42. Ke2 Ke4
43. Kf2 h4 44. gxh4 Kxf4 45. Ke2 Ke5 46. Kf3 Kf6 47. Kf4 c5

This looks good for black. Black always has that nasty forced passer on the
queen side with pc5 followed by pc4. It seems white's hands (or in this case,
chips) are tied. Is there a better defense for white?
>
>Is 1.Ke2 Ke4 not good enough for winning? White comes into Zugzwang. If the wK
>goes to d2 then the bK enters f3, if wK goes to f2 then black can play d4-d3.
>
>>
>>What do other programs think of all these.



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