Lyudmil Tsvetkov wrote:Nordlandia wrote:Yacov Murey vs Nigel Short, Brighton 1982.
This foretress is breakable.
[d]5Q2/4nbp1/4pk1p/3p4/3P1P2/2P5/8/2K5 w - - 2 54
https://lichess.org/MoY9bNEX#106
only if black makes some mistakes.
[d]3Q4/5np1/4k3/5b2/5P2/4K3/8/8 w - - 0 10
provided this one is a fortress, I don't see how white wins.
is that one a fortress, according to 7-men?
White mates in 101 and captures occures before 50-move rule take effect, so theoretically white can win. Of course no human can do that.
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1.Qc8+ Kf6 2.Qc3+ Kg6 3.Kd4 Bd7 4.Qa3 Bf5 5.Qe7 Bg4 6.Kc5 Bh3 7.Kc6 Bg4 8.Kc7
Bh3 9.Qe1 Bf5 10.Qh4 Be6 11.Qg3+ Kh7 12.Qh2+ Kg6 13.Qg2+ Kf6 14.Qc6 Ke7 15.
Qc5+ Kf6 16.Qc3+ Kg6 17.Qc6 Kf6 18.Kb6 Ke7 19.Qc5+ Kf6 20.Qc3+ Kg6 21.Qc6 Kf6
22.Kb5 Ke7 23.Qc5+ Kf6 24.Qd4+ Kg6 25.Qb6 Kf6 26.Kb4 Ke7 27.Qc5+ Kf6 28.Qd4+
Kg6 29.Qb6 Kf6 30.Kc3 Ke7 31.Qb4+ Kf6 32.Qd4+ Kg6 33.Qb6 Kf6 34.Kd3 g6 35.f5
Kxf5 36.Qb2 g5 37.Qf2+ Ke5 38.Kc3 Bf5 39.Qd4+ Ke6 40.Kb3 Nd6 41.Kb4 Nf7 42.Kb5
Nd6+ 43.Kb6 Nf7 44.Kc7 Ke7 45.Qb6 Be6 46.Qf2 Kf8 47.Qf6 Bg4 48.Kc6 Bh3 49.Kc5
Bg4 50.Kc4 Bh3 51.Kc3 Bg4 52.Kd2 Bh3 53.Qc6 Bg4 54.Qe4 Bh3 55.Qe3 Bg4 56.Ke1
Kg8 57.Kf2 Bf5 58.Qd4 Bh3 59.Kg3 Bc8 60.Qc4 Bf5 61.Qd5 Bg6 62.Qe6 Bh5 63.Kf2
Kf8 64.Qe4 Kg7 65.Ke3 Bg6 66.Qd4+ Kg8 67.Qf6 Bh5 68.Qf5 Kg7 69.Kd4 Bg6 70.Qf2
Nd6 71.Qf3 Ne4 72.Ke5 Kh7 73.Qh3+ Kg7 74.Ke6 Be8 75.Ke7 Bf7 76.Qh2 Bg6 77.Qb8
g4 78.Qf8+ Kh7 79.Qf4 Kg7 80.Qxg4 Kh6 81.Qh4+ Kg7 82.Ke6 Nc5+ 83.Ke5 Nd7+ 84.
Kd6 Nf8 85.Qe7+ Bf7 86.Qe5+ Kh7 87.Qf6 Kg8 88.Qh6 Nh7 89.Kd7 Nf8+ 90.Ke7 Nh7
91.Qf4 Bg6 92.Qd4 Bh5 93.Qd5+ Kh8 94.Qxh5 Kg7 95.Qf5 Kh6 96.Qg4 Ng5 97.Kf6
Nh7+ 98.Kf5 Ng5 99.Qxg5+ Kh7 100.Kf6 Kh8 101.Qg7# 1-0[/pgn]