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Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« on: Nov 27th, 2006, 8:41am » |
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Using the tournament ruleset, who wins the following position and in how many moves?
1w Rd2 Cg7
1b dc7 rh8
2w pass
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #1 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 1:04pm » |
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looks like gold in 4
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #2 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 2:26pm » |
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I think silver wins after moving the dog to b4. After this, the dog either gets to the rabbit faster or freezes the cat on the same side as the gold rabbit and activates the silver rabbit to win the race. Gold can delay for 6 or 7 moves.
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #3 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 2:11am » |
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ok I raise to gold in 6 
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #4 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 8:36am » |
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Anybody else want to chime in here? How should gold respond to d to b4?
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #5 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 3:51pm » |
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Cge7 Rd2eee (and threatening to push the silver rabbit to f
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #6 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 5:18pm » |
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then silver can D to e5. I'm not sure but this seems to win for silver.
My initial guess was Deee, R to b4, d to b7, but then R to a4 and Ce wins for gold.
You seem to be a great endgame player, Ron Maybe we could think about some kinds of postal tournaments with only a few pieces available at setup, or fixed starting endgame position  Then Ron would get revenge for not playing in the WC
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #7 on: Nov 30th, 2006, 9:33am » |
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Thanx, chessandgo. It's very nice of you to forget about the ones I got wrong. On this one, I was going to reply to PMertens with db4eeee. I think the effect is about the same.
I like the shorthand PMertens invented. It sounds like parseltongue. Consider Mh7ssss  .
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #8 on: Nov 30th, 2006, 9:56am » |
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hehehe ... I'm ssssssssorry to dissssssagree withhhhhhh you, but db4eeee seems less efficient against gold pushing the rabbit on f8.
What is the right answer as to the number of moves, jdb ?
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #9 on: Nov 30th, 2006, 6:09pm » |
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Gold's longest defence allows silver to goal on move 10b
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #10 on: Dec 1st, 2006, 6:49am » |
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I'd like to see that move list. Spells longer than a few steps for me usually turn into a grey paste.
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #11 on: Dec 1st, 2006, 8:54am » |
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This is one possible line of play. Silver's first move is forced, after that both sides have several choices.
1w Rd2 Cg7
1b dc7 rh8
2w
2b dc7w db7s db6s db5s
3w Rd2e Re2e
3b db4e
4w Rf2w Cg7e Re2e Rf2e
4b dc4e dd4e de4n
5w Rg2e
5b de5s de4e df4e
6w rh8w Ch7n rg8w Ch8w
6b dg4n dg5n dg6n
7w Rh2w Rg2w Rf2w Re2w
7b dg7w rf8w re8s re7s
8w Rd2w Rc2w Rb2n Rb3n
8b re6s re5w rd5w rc5w
9w Rb4w Cg8s Ra4e
9b rb5w df7n ra5e df8e
10w Rb4w
10b rb5s rb4s rb3s rb2s
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #12 on: Dec 1st, 2006, 11:34am » |
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I fear it's even more unclear after looking at the solution than before 
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Re: Endgame Study 4, Cat vs Dog
« Reply #13 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 11:24am » |
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The position after 8b is significant.
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