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Themistoklis
Can someone help me with this position? It's black to move.
rooperi
Is Black playing up the board, ie h8 at bottom left?
Shivsky
I'll take a stab.
Well the FEN code indicates that White is bottom.
With that being the case, Black can only hope to draw.
With Black to move, I see Black's c pawn on c2 when White queens on f8.
Isn't a bishop pawn on the 7th a theoretical draw against a lone King and Queen (the Black king runs to a1 at the critical moment with the stalemate idea).
But there's another Black pawn (h pawn) that can ruin the stalemate idea. So maybe we try to liquidate our own h-pawn first with 1...h3 2.Kxh3 (or else a draw with 2 queens and no cheap tactics on hand)
I'd say 1...h3 is the plan followed by 2.Kxh3 c4, ...c3,c2 and play for the stalemate-draw idea.
Could be horribly wrong about this ... hope to be proven so.
chry3841
dead draw if black queen's where his king is:
@chry3841: Not a stalemate ... that's why 1...h3 was to be played first.
ahh right, didn't count that, with h3 first it works the draw for back
I posted after you becouse making the diagram took much time so I could'nt read your post before posting mine...
@rooperi h1 is on the bottom right.
I was stydying a chess book when this position came to my mind. I was trying to find a forced win for white after c4(without black playing h3 in the first 3 moves) but I found this variation which is also drawish for black.
I came to the conclusion that after 1...h3 and 1...c4 black can draw this position. Do you think I am right?
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