Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Is this drawn?

Black to move. I'm black.

I'm skeptical that it can be held, but might be possible. The obvious first move is ...Be1 or Bd2. After that, I think it's hard for White to make progress. I lost, however, but I only had like 0:20 left.

EDIT: This is trivially won. 1. ... Bd2 (or whatever) 2.Kb5 3.Ka4 4.a3 and no matter what Black does, you have two passed pawns and it's not a tricky technical endgame.

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