Author: KarinsDad
Date: 07:19:44 03/01/00
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On March 01, 2000 at 08:57:20, Martin wrote: >On March 01, 2000 at 03:42:23, Bernhard Bauer wrote: > >>On March 01, 2000 at 02:58:49, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On March 01, 2000 at 01:37:17, Janos Keinrath wrote: >>> >>>>Hi! >>>> >>>>Yesterday I saw an intresting endgame position on ICC. >>>> >>>> [D]8/8/6k1/3p4/3P4/2P2PKp/pB4b1/8 b - - I see some other possibilities here. All of the analysis that I have seen in this thread has had white opening up the position. How about the following? 1 ... Kf5 2 Ba1 Bf1 3 Bb2 Be2 4 Ba1 h2 5 Kxh2 Kf4 6 Kg2 Bxf3+ 7 Kf2 and white should be able to get over to the queenside and attempt a draw. 1 ... Kf5 2 Ba1 Bf1 3 Bb2 Be2 4 Ba1 h2 5 Kxh2 Bxf3 7 Kg1 and the same thing. If black attempts to get to the queenside without using the Be2 move, then white can at some point (once black's king is at b3 for example) play f4. If black then goes after white's bishop and tries to queen the a pawn, white gets to queen the f pawn. If black tries to stop that with Bf1, Be3, Bg6, white can play c4 (once the black king move to c2). This probably still fails for white, but it takes 5 moves for black to play kc2, kb1, kxa1, kb1, a1(Q), so the white c and f pawns are fairly threatening. The idea is that white should NOT play c4 until it gives him a true advantage. And since white has the king side bottled up (unless black attempts something like the lines above), black is forced to move his king to the queenside if he wishes to force something. Now, there may be a way to still give black the win, but I am not sure that it is so cut and dry as people think. KarinsDad :)
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