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White is piece down. What can he do? Is he lost? or can he draw or win?
Posted by Harish Srinivasan at 11/03/2008 11:58:00 PM
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  1. AnonymousNovember 4, 2008 at 9:28 AM

    hmm, very interesting position indeed, Originally i looked at Qg7? but after Qxb1+ Kxb1 Rxd1++ and that doesn't really seem to work, I am not looking at R3h1 as a way to stave off the black invasion..but that seems to fail to Ba2, How about R3d3, i'll let somebody else take over on the analysis on this one.

    -josh rofrano

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  2. Harish SrinivasanNovember 4, 2008 at 12:47 PM

    R3d3 is interesting josh, but it also fails to ...Ba2

    Black will able to win the white pawn on f6 at the end of a forced variation after ...Ba2 and still be material up.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 5, 2008 at 10:53 AM

    1.R1d3 RxR 2.RxR should work. (1. ...Ba2 2.Qh6 Qxb1+ 3.Kd2 RxR 4.RxR and win.) Did I miss something?
    Marijan

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  4. Harish SrinivasanNovember 5, 2008 at 12:40 PM

    Yes Marijan, R1d3 actually wins for White. There is no proper defense to Qh6 and Qg7.

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