Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 14:27:03 01/31/00
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On January 31, 2000 at 16:38:05, Howard Exner wrote: >On January 31, 2000 at 15:32:26, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On January 31, 2000 at 14:42:02, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>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 > >After Ke2 doesn't h4 by black transpose to the previous win (the one >where black has the passed f pawn and the potential forces passer on the >queenside)? I don't think so, because black hasn't played c5 yet: Ke1 Ke4 Ke2 h4 gxh4 Kxf4 Kd3 Kg3 h5, and now white's h-pawn will cause problems, then maybe f4 h6 f3 h7 f2 h8=Q f1=Q+ Kd2 Qf4+ Kd1 c5 Qh7 Qe3 h4 I think black must force a perpetual here, as white's h-pawn will cause problems.
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