Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 07:12:55 02/28/01
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On February 28, 2001 at 09:56:04, Sune Larsson wrote: > > [D]1n6/4k2p/p3ppp1/1pPp4/3P1PP1/3NP3/P3K2P/8 w - - 0 1 > > Take off your hats folks, cause this is a real piece of art! > A stunning performance by a great player. If you can figure out > who handles the white pieces this way, you'll win a nice price - > "My 60 Memories" by Ossi Weiner, provided of course that some justice > is done in the old country ;) (Sorry, this was a little European joke > that slipped out of my mouth.) Back to the game - we have a knight ending > with 7 pawns each. If black's knight was on c6, his queenside majority > would be a menace. As things stand, white can engineer a dramatic central > breakthrough: > > 1.f5!! [If now 1.-gxf5 2.gxf5 exf5 3.Nf4 wins - and 1.-Nc6 2.Nf4!] > Black stops Nf4, but succumbs to a brilliant diversion. > > 1.-g5 2.Nb4 a5 3.c6! Kd6 4.fxe6! Nxc6 5.Nxc6 Kxc6 6.e4! with a winning > pawn ending. [6.-dxe4 7.d5+ etc.] > > Test1: White is winning in a forced, sparking way. Too hard for the comps? Easy. :) New position 1n6/4k2p/p3ppp1/1pPp4/3P1PP1/3NP3/P3K2P/8 w - - 0 1 Analysis by DEEP FRITZ : 1.e4-- ³ (-0.37) Depth: 1/3 00:00:00 1.e4-- ³ (-0.37) Depth: 1/3 00:00:00 1.h4! = (0.16) Depth: 1/3 00:00:00 1.h4! ± (0.72) Depth: 1/3 00:00:00 1.h4 Nc6 ² (0.44) Depth: 2/5 00:00:00 1.g5! ² (0.56) Depth: 2/5 00:00:00 1.g5 fxg5 2.fxg5 Nc6 ² (0.53) Depth: 3/8 00:00:00 1.g5 fxg5 2.fxg5 Nc6 3.h4 ² (0.56) Depth: 4/11 00:00:00 1.g5 fxg5 2.fxg5 Nc6 3.h4 Kd7 ² (0.53) Depth: 5/10 00:00:00 1kN 1.f5! ² (0.56) Depth: 5/13 00:00:00 2kN 1.f5! g5 ² (0.63) Depth: 5/13 00:00:00 4kN 1.f5 g5 2.fxe6 Nc6 3.h4 Kxe6 4.h5 ² (0.53) Depth: 6/13 00:00:00 8kN 1.h4! ² (0.56) Depth: 6/15 00:00:00 11kN 1.h4! h5 2.gxh5 gxh5 ² (0.59) Depth: 6/15 00:00:00 13kN 1.h4 h6 2.g5 hxg5 3.hxg5 fxg5 4.fxg5 Nc6 5.Nf4 Kf7 ² (0.59) Depth: 7/16 00:00:00 21kN 1.f5! ² (0.63) Depth: 7/18 00:00:00 27kN 1.f5! g5 2.a3 Kd7 3.fxe6+ Kxe6 4.Nb4 h6 ± (0.72) Depth: 7/18 00:00:00 32kN 1.f5 g5 2.a3 h6 3.fxe6 Kxe6 4.Nb4 a5 5.Nd3 ± (0.75) Depth: 8/19 00:00:00 54kN 1.f5 g5 2.fxe6 Nc6 3.a3 a5 4.h4 Kxe6 5.h5 ² (0.59) Depth: 9/19 00:00:00 86kN 1.f5 g5 2.fxe6 Nc6 3.Ne1 Kxe6 4.Nf3 a5 5.h3 b4 ² (0.44) Depth: 10/21 00:00:00 207kN 1.g5! ² (0.47) Depth: 10/21 00:00:00 211kN 1.g5! fxg5 2.fxg5 Nc6 3.h4 a5 4.Kf3 b4 5.Kf4 a4 6.Ne5 ± (0.78) Depth: 10/21 00:00:00 252kN 1.g5 fxg5 2.fxg5 Nc6 3.h4 Kd8 4.Kf3 Ne7 5.Nf4 Kd7 6.e4 Nc6 ± (0.88) Depth: 11/20 00:00:00 342kN 1.g5 fxg5 2.fxg5 Nc6 3.h4 Kd8 4.Kf3 Ne7 5.Nf4 Kd7 6.e4 Nc6 ± (0.88) Depth: 12/23 00:00:01 538kN 1.g5-- ² (0.56) Depth: 13/24 00:00:01 811kN 1.g5-- ² (0.56) Depth: 13/24 00:00:01 858kN 1.h4! ² (0.59) Depth: 13/25 00:00:02 1202kN 1.h4 Nc6 2.g5 f5 3.Kf3 a5 4.Ke2 b4 5.Ne5 Nxe5 6.fxe5 a4 ² (0.69) Depth: 14/27 00:00:06 3107kN 1.g5! ± (0.72) Depth: 14/27 00:00:06 3450kN 1.f5! ± (0.75) Depth: 14/27 00:00:10 5167kN 1.f5! g5 2.Nb4 a5 3.c6 Kd6 4.fxe6 Nxc6 5.Nxc6 Kxc6 6.e4 dxe4 ± (1.22) Depth: 14/29 00:00:11 6020kN 1.f5 g5 2.Nb4 a5 3.c6 Kd6 4.fxe6 Nxc6 5.Nxc6 Kxc6 6.e4 dxe4 ± (1.06) Depth: 15/30 00:00:14 7372kN 1.f5! ± (1.38) Depth: 16/32 00:00:23 12189kN 1.f5! Nc6 2.Nf4 gxf5 3.gxf5 Nb4 4.a3 Nc2 5.Nxe6 Nxa3 6.Nc7 a5 +- (1.84) Depth: 16/34 00:01:07 36420kN (Irazoqui, Cadaqués 28.02.2001) > Test2: Who played white and composed this beauty? [Sorry, no price ;) Easy #2. :)) (not so easy. CB8 didn't find it, but CB7 did) [Event "Hastings"] [Site "Hastings"] [Date "1895.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Pillsbury, Harry Nelson"] [Black "Gunsberg, Isidor"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D94"] [PlyCount "79"] [EventDate "1895.08.??"] [Source "ChessBase"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Bd3 O-O 7. Ne5 dxc4 8. Bxc4 Nd5 9. f4 Be6 10. Qb3 b5 11. Bxd5 Bxd5 12. Nxd5 Qxd5 13. Qxd5 cxd5 14. Nd3 Nd7 15. Bd2 Rfc8 16. Ke2 e6 17. Rhc1 Bf8 18. Rxc8 Rxc8 19. Rc1 Rxc1 20. Bxc1 Bd6 21. Bd2 Kf8 22. Bb4 Ke7 23. Bc5 a6 24. b4 f6 25. g4 Bxc5 26. bxc5 Nb8 27. f5 g5 28. Nb4 a5 29. c6 Kd6 30. fxe6 Nxc6 31. Nxc6 Kxc6 32. e4 dxe4 33. d5+ Kd6 34. Ke3 b4 35. Kxe4 a4 36. Kd4 h5 37. gxh5 a3 38. Kc4 f5 39. h6 f4 40. h7 1-0 Enrique > Sune
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