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Aleksandra Goryachkina vs Meri Arabidze
World Junior Championship (Girls) (2013), Kocaeli TUR, rd 12, Sep-25
Dutch Defense: Stonewall. Modern Variation (A90)  ·  1-0

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Sep-25-13  AsosLight: 77...f2 is like swimming in an oil pool and light a cigar.
Sep-25-13  Jim Bartle: Was Rxe4 a winner many moves earlier and she was just calculating, or did she have to maneuver to that position before making the capture on move 89?
Jan-06-14
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  ajk68: I worked out this endgame starting with 90. Kxe4 ... and it is a draw. Black needs to avoid the mistake of stepping into the c-file which allows for white to push c6, undermining a6 without fear of black queening. If black avoids that mistake, then he merely needs to keep his king in a position to capture the white c-pawn when white captures the black b-pawn. Then white cannot capture the a6 pawn without black taking the opposition, trapping the white king on the edge of the board.

I plugged the position after 90. Kxe4... into a tablebase and it is indeed a draw.

The rook sacrifice doesn't work.

Jan-06-14  cro777: <Jim Bartle: Was Rxe4 a winner many moves earlier>

Rxe4 leads to a theoretical draw, earlier after 86.Rxe4 (instead of 86.Ke5) or later after 89.Rxe4 in the game.

For instance, 86.Rxe4 Bxe4 87.Kxe4


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This is a theoretical draw.

In the game, after 90. Kxe4 Kg4 91. Ke5 Kf3 92. Kd6 Ke4 93. Kc7 Kd5 94. Kb6


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94...Kc4? was the decisive mistake. Black should have played 94...Kd4 with a draw.

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