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Subject: Re: Testposition - A Sparking Jewel

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 07:55:02 02/28/01

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On February 28, 2001 at 10:12:55, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On February 28, 2001 at 09:56:04, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>
>>  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

 Very alert and nice! I really like this ending. But I wonder what prevented
 CB8 from finding this position?  I faced exactly the same problem. Hm...
 Superb analyse from Deep Fritz though. Worth noticing is that we saw
 two examples of the famous "Pillsbury bind" in this game. 7.Ne5 + 9.f4!
 and 23.Lc5 + 24.b4!

 Sune
>
>>  Sune



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