Top 12 French League

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Leonard Barden
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Re: Top 12 French League

Post by Leonard Barden » Sat Jun 13, 2015 11:11 am

The Guardian's take on Glenn Flear's performance:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/j ... nal-league

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Re: Top 12 French League

Post by Tim Harding » Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:03 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote:
David Robertson wrote:Right

So what should Almira have played, rendering the win trivial?
It isn't trivial but she could have forced White to sacrifice her rook for the e-pawn. That leaves a position where White has a, b and c pawns against Rook and e pawn. Engines seem confident that Black is winning, but it could have been difficult in practice, particularly if Black was short of time.
After 52 Rh3?? Rf5+! 53 Kc4 (or 53 Kb6) 53...e2! 54 Rd3+ (immediate 54 Re3 comes to the same.) 54...Rd5 55 Re3 Re5 (have I missed anything in this sequence?) 56 Rxe2 Rxe2 the 7-man Lomonosov tablebase says Black wins.

Donchenko-Mista from the French teams also had a blunderful endgame finish which I was watching live, and afterwards looked at with the 7-man tablebase. It's the second of two endings on this page at my website:

http://www.chessmail.com/games/queenendings.htm
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