Author: Howard Exner
Date: 08:49:04 03/02/00
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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 - - > >This is the final position of a blitz game played by Amateur >with black. The game ended with rep. draw, but I feel black somehow >can win. Could you check the position? What is the winning plan? > >Janos After reading the posts from this position the best I can offer is this. 1... Kf5 2. c4 dxc4 3. d5 Bf1 4. Bh8 Be2 5. d6 (Kxh3 Kf4!) Ke6 6. Kxh3 Now with either Kxd6 or Bxf3, Black ends up with an a and c pawn with opposite bishops. White though has time to move the king into a solid defensive square, a1. Now the white bishop can always sacrifice itself for an eventual black c3 pawn push, leaving the wrong colored bishop for black. The result is a draw. But, and it's the reason I enjoy chess so much, there may be some other method for black that I am not aware of. Thanks for the interesting post.
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