PRACTICAL CHESS ENDGAME
or BRIAN'S CHESS FOLLY.
31/10/99
Welcome to this active site. Each week I am going to
present to you a endgame position for you to solve or to workout the
best continuation. Computer analysis will also be considered. Some of
these positions will come from actual historical games. Others will
be composed endgame studies, but all the solutions will be relevant
to the practical game.
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THIS WEEK
POSITION 113
White to play & WIN
FORSYTH
NOTATION:4k3/3p1p1p/1Ppp1p2/8/2P1K3/3P4/qB2R2P/8:
LAST WEEK, POSITION 112
Mark Taimanov (1926- ) Top Soviet Grandmaster and concert pianist.
Somehow he has found the energy to combine two difficult and
contrasting professions. He became persona non grata in his
country after losing his 1971 candidate match (0-6) to Bobby
Fischer. He overcame his isolation to look back positively to his
match with Fischer and to continue his career. His courage and
determination in the face of hardship has recently been rewarded when
he won the World Veteran Championship.
Taimanov vs Gawlikowski
Lodz, 1955
White to play & WIN (?)
FORSYTH
NOTATION:8/7p/8/4k1p1/2K1P3/r7/P3R2P/8:
White's passed a-pawn will become very strong and will
eventually promote, costing the Rook. Black counterattacks by seeking
to obtain his own passed pawn on the other wing and comes close to
saving the game. White has to play precisely to gain the full
point:
The King forces back the blockading Rook so that the
a-pawn can advance.
1.Kb4 Ra8
2.a4 Rb8+
3.Kc5...
The King and pawn are going to
advance by the "Combined Method" which was discovered by the great
Russian analyst, Grigoriev.
3...Ra8
4.Kb5 Rb8+
5.Kc6...
The king occupies the position two squares
diagonally from the pawn.
5...Ra8
6.Ra2!...
Whites only chance of winning lies with the a-pawn.
The e-pawn is sacrificed so that the Rook
becomes active and progress can be made with the
a-pawn.
6...Kxe4
7.Ra3!!...
This is the key move and so easily overlooked. The King must
be stopped from going to f3 where it will be able to aid his
pawns. Taimanov had played the ending admirably
up to here but now he made a mistake with 7.a5? and his opponent
returned the error with another: 7...g4?; The correct move is
7...Kf3! which draws: 8.a6 g4 9.Kb7 Rg8 10.a7 h5 11.a8Q Rxa8 12.Kax8
h4 13.Ra4 h3=. Further mistakes were made in the game which
was eventually drawn. After hours of analysis I have not found a draw
for Black after 7.Ra3!! The main line continues:
7...g4 8.a5 h5 9.a6 h4 10.Kb7 Rh8 10...Rf8
11.a7 g3 12.hxg3 h3 13.g4+- ; 10...Rg8 11.a7 g3 12.hxg3 h3 13.g4+- 11.a7 g3 12.hxg3 h3 13.g4 h2 14.Ra1 Kf3 15.g5 WINS.
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