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Subject: A simple endgame?

Author: John Coffey

Date: 21:22:15 03/01/00


With the position

White King on a1 and white rook on a4

Black pawns on a3 and b3.  Black King on c3 and Black knight on c4.

My opponent and I thought that black could have won with  1. ... b2+
2.  Ka2 Nd2 where 3. Rxa3+ would fail to Kc2 winning.  But 3. Rb4!! draws.

Fritz 5.01 takes a remarkably long time to realize that this is a draw.  After
3 minutes on a Pentium III 450 mhz it still thinks 1. .... Kd3  2. Rb4 Kc3  3.
Ra3 repeating
the position but Fritz still thinks -+ with a score of -1.59



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