well, I got half an hour free to analyse the first position, after Kf3.
let me first say, that I did that fully out of politeness, but not to Mr. Possioto, but to the position itself, as he basically took any random position from a line where there are at least 20 possibilities to play a different move.
that certainly was not correct, as this was not even my line, but the line of SF.
my claim has never been that SF's line is fully correct, with no mistakes, but that the original position at the end of the forced line is a draw: those are 2 completely different things.
it might be the case that Kf3 is a stronger move than the one SF played, but the outcome is still not certain.
I myself would play Nd7, restricting the rook's activity and trying to build some fortress, whether this could be successful is a matter of deep investigation.
alternatively, black has a forced capturing line, why do not you look at forced lines first?
[pgn][Event "Blitz 1m"]
[Site "Microsoft"]
[Date "2017.06.15"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT"]
[Black "myself, owner"]
[Result "*"]
[Annotator "owner"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "3k4/2R5/r1p2p1p/2n5/4PB2/5K2/5PPP/8 b - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "20"]
[TimeControl "60"]
{512MB, OWNER-PC} 1... Nxe4 {0} 2. Kxe4 {1.37/25 2} Ra4+ {2} 3. Ke3 {1.34/29 0}
Rxf4 {2} 4. Rxc6 {1.31/31 0} Rf5 {2} 5. g4 {2.08/24 2} Rg5 {1} 6. f3 {2.41/24 0
} Ke7 {5} 7. Rc7+ {2.15/30 0} Kf8 {1} 8. Rh7 {2.63/30 2} Rg6 {2} 9. h4 {2.58/
32 0} f5 {4} 10. gxf5 {2.58/36 0} Ra6 {4} 11. h5 {2.66/38 0} *
[/pgn]
what is this, theoretical draw with f and h pawns?
no time to investigate now, you will tell me.
so that black has different possibilities to try drawing the game.
I however, in general, do not like that line at all, black ceded too much of its drawing assets.
now I have to go back to business again, but in couple of hours, provided I manage to log, I might be back with some more feedback on the main position, after Kd8.
that is, if I manage to log.
PS. I would kindly request some of the moderators to please check what is going on with my logging account.
I already tried 5 or 6 times to log unsuccessfully, finally managed by sheer chance.
I remember very clearly that the very same problem happened in the summer of 2015, the forum simply refuses to log me, or, logs me, but just ficticiously, as I can not post messages.
It claims my account is not valid.
Harm, Harvey, Robert, please do something.
obviously, someone has hacked my account, it is dangerous to mess with the Rybka gang...