White to move. Computer Analysis says that White has Mate in 18. White's next move was 49. Kb3. The computer does not give the move a ? or ?! but lists the game as almost dead even (+0.01). How can White go from a forced mate to a draw without making a questionnable move? Was there really no forced mate?
Computer analysis isn't that strong, sometimes it just doesn't see far enough. But since it did see it, and then also saw that Kb3? is draw -- it should have called it a blunder. Weird.
As far as I can tell, white wins by immediate breakthrough:
I saw h5 too late and blew the win. I think Kb3 deserves ??.
h5 is mate in 18 (check t-bases). It's possible that the computer analysis is using a mix of t-base results and its own results and the integration of the t-base results isn't so smooth.
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