From: David J Bush <twixt <at> CSTONE <dot> NET>
Date: 19 may 2003
Subject: Re: "Habu's Words"

| |     9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1
| |   +---------------------------+
| | a |wL bS  *  *  *  *  *  * wL | a
| | b | * bS  *  * wG  *  *  *  * | b
| | c | * wP bN wP  * wP  * wP  * | c
| | d |wP  *  * wK  *  *  *  * wP | d
| | e | * bG bB  *  *  *  *  *  * | e
| | f |bP bP wP bP  * bP bP bP bP | f
| | g | *  *  * bB bG  * bS bK  * | g
| | h | *  *  *  *  *  * bG  *  * | h
| | i |bL  *w+R  *  *  *  *  *w+R | i
| |   +---------------------------+
| |     9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1
| |
| |       Black (Matt Casters)       S N P P
| |
| |   Diagram 9. After 53.B'7e
| |
| | There white resigned (1-0). I see next variant (comment in book):
| | 53. ... K-5e 54.S'4e +R7i-2i 55.S-2h with win for black.
| |
| | I think that white must to win there. See next:
| | 55. ... +R1ix2h 56.Gx2h S'3h 57.K-3g +Rx2h 58.K-4h (if 58.Kx2h
| | than 58. ... G'2g 59.K-1i L'1h mat) +R-3i 59.K-5h (59.K-3g G'2g mat) +R-4i
| | 60.K-6h G'7g tsume
|
| I don't have the book, but White does have a tsume after 54.S'4e?
| However, perhaps Black could play 54.G-5f which gives his king the escape
| square of 5g. For example 54.G-5f K-4d 55.N'4e (threatening 56.S'3e (or
| 56.S'3c) 56. ...K-5d 57.G-6e) and now nothing seems to work for white:
|
| 55. ... L'3b 56.N-3c+ threatens G-4e which is a tsume.
                  ^^^^^

I meant 56.N-5c+ not N-3c+, sorry


| 55. ... L'6e 56.P'5e with the double threat of S'3e or S'3c.
|
| So maybe Reijer's resignation was appropriate?
|
| David