Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 11:42:02 01/31/00
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On January 31, 2000 at 14:16:46, Peter McKenzie wrote: >On January 31, 2000 at 13:54:19, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On January 31, 2000 at 13:41:01, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>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? >>>> >>>>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. >>> >>>Ke2 Ke4 Kf2 d3 Kxd3 g4! hxg4 hxg4, and now what? White is winning! >> ^ >> Should be cxd3 in between there. :) > >Ke2 Ke4 Kf2 c5 Ke2 h4 gxh4 Kxf4 and I think black is winning. > >Black can stop white's passed h-pawns, and he has two threats of his own namely >advancing the f-pawn and advancing on the queenside with c4 bxc4 d3 cxd3 b3 and >queens. How about: Ke1! (seemingly giving up a tempo) Ke4 Ke2 c5 h4!, and then black can do nothing.
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