Win or draw

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Dayffd
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Win or draw

Post by Dayffd »

SF 8 and Komodo 10.3 say White wins. Somehow I think Black holds a draw.

[d]Q7/5k2/3p1r1p/p4P2/Pb3K1P/8/8/8 w - - 0 49
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Re: Win or draw

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Hi!
Dayffd wrote:SF 8 and Komodo 10.3 say White wins. Somehow I think Black holds a draw.

[d]Q7/5k2/3p1r1p/p4P2/Pb3K1P/8/8/8 w - - 0 49
After some Forward- Backward:

Q7/5k2/3p1r1p/p4P2/Pb3K1P/8/8/8 w - - 0 1

Analysis by pedantFishW_2017-02-28_popcnt:

49.Qb7+ Kf8 50.Qc8+ Ke7 51.Qc7+ Ke8 52.Qg7 Bc3 53.Qg8+ Ke7 54.Ke4 Be5 55.Qd5 Bc3 56.Qb7+ Kd8 57.Qb3 d5+ 58.Qxd5+ Kc7 59.Qc5+ Rc6 60.Qe7+ Kb6 61.Kd5 Bb4 62.Qd8+ Kb7 63.f6 Rc2 64.Qd7+ Kb8 65.Qg7 Rc5+ 66.Kd4 Rc1 67.Qxh6 Rf1 68.Kd5 Rd1+ 69.Ke4 Rf1 70.Qg7 Re1+ 71.Kf3 Rf1+ 72.Kg2 Rd1 73.f7 Rd8 74.Kf3 Ka8 75.Qe5 Kb7 76.Qb5+ Ka7 77.Ke4 Rc8 78.Qf5 Kb8 79.Qe5+ Ka7 80.Qd4+ Ka8 81.Qd5+ Kb8 82.h5 Ba3 83.Qb5+ Ka7 84.Qxa5+ Kb7
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Re: Win or draw

Post by Leto »

Dayffd wrote:SF 8 and Komodo 10.3 say White wins. Somehow I think Black holds a draw.
Can you show us how Black can save this?