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A draw offer

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White has just played Re2 and offered a draw.

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Didn't you like your other thread?

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
White has just played Re2 and offered a draw.

[fen]8/4kr2/4p2p/p1p1P1p1/2P5/PP2p3/4R1KP/8 b - - 0 40[/fen]
What did black do?







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Originally posted by zebano
Didn't you like your other thread?
Nope. I like this position better because it took Fritz seven minutes to find what I found in three.

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Decline offer and Rf2+?

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nah I guessing.

a4....if bxa4 the pawn structure is ruined, the rook then snaps them up...

If Rxe3 Rf4! bxa4? Rxc4 -- again, destroying whites structure.

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Originally posted by deeploser
Decline offer and Rf2+?
why?

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Because black will create a 'most distant' freepawn and win the pawn endgame easily after Rf2+ Rxf2 exf2 Kxf2 and then h5 sooner or later

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Black played 40...Rf2+! 41.Rxf2 exf2 42.Kxf2 a4!! (the idea) 43.bxa4 Kd7 -+ with an easily won endgame.

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
Nope. I like this position better because it took Fritz seven minutes to find what I found in three.
You see tactics faster than Fritz!? 😛

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Originally posted by Ramiri15
You see tactics faster than Fritz!? 😛
Fritz doesn't analyze endgames well without TBs.

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
Black played 40...Rf2+! 41.Rxf2 exf2 42.Kxf2 a4!! (the idea) 43.bxa4 Kd7 -+ with an easily won endgame.

[fen]8/3k4/4p2p/2p1P1p1/P1P5/P7/5K1P/8 w - - 0 44[/fen]
how is that an easily won endgame

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Originally posted by HomerJSimpson
how is that an easily won endgame
The doubled white pawns on the a-rank are weak, and create an easy break-in point into white's position for black's king if the white king does not drift over there to defend them.

However, white's king has to defend against the black g-h pawns, who will win against the one lone white pawn if it's left alone to defend.

In other words, the white king is overloaded. It has to protect the black king from invading on the a-rank and swallowing up pawns, and also protect the g-h pawns from walking down and queening.

Make sense?

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Originally posted by Ramiri15
You see tactics faster than Fritz!? 😛
nope, but this one is less about tacticas than long term consequences of pawn structure

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Originally posted by cmsMaster
Fritz doesn't analyze endgames well without TBs.
and the quantity of pieces remaining here are sufficient that it takes some time in analysis before the tablebases come into play. Fritz is able to use them, but it takes afew minutes of analysis to get there.