Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:59:00 11/23/00
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On November 23, 2000 at 19:35:02, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On November 23, 2000 at 18:02:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 23, 2000 at 05:45:03, Andreas Stabel wrote: >> >>>On November 23, 2000 at 05:25:43, Shanti wrote: >>> >>>>Hi >>>> >>>>Just to complete the picture the b pawn will be catch by the black king (b6 kd7 >>>>b7 kc7) but then white uses the king side to force a queen. Black is one move >>>>short since after b8=Q Kxb8 white will queen with a check. >>>> >>>>Shanti >>> >>>I don't understand this. >>>After the moves 1. d5 exd5 2. exd5 cxd5 3. a5 bxa5 4. b5 axb5 5. cxb5 Ke7 >>>6. b6 Kd7 7. b7 Kc7 8. b8=Q+ Kxb8 you get the following position: >>>[D]1k6/8/3p1ppp/p2p4/5PPP/8/8/5K2 w - - 0 9 >>> >>>It is not possible to force a queen on the king side here or ... ??? >>> >>>Regards >>>Andreas Stabel >> >> >>white plays g6. If you play hxg6 then white plays f6. If you play fxg6 then >>white plays h6. This is called "the sneaker" in chess ending books. White >>loses a pawn, but queens first. > >Of course, you mean 9.g5 rather then 9.g6, but unfortunately 9.g5 fxg5 10.h5 >gxh5 11.f5 Kc8 and the Black King is in the square of the pawn. > >White must hold off on Queening the b-pawn until he ready to queen a pawn on the >K-side, otherwise the Black King is free to return to the K-side and foil >White's plan. This is dealt with in more detail by someone else in another part >of this thread. Yes, I meant 5 rather than 6... but in the above, I really wasn't trying to solve the position. I was responding to the question "how can white make a passed pawn on the kingside?" The "sneaker" isn't obvious unless you have ssen it before...
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