Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 08:20:17 02/28/01
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On February 28, 2001 at 10:55:02, Sune Larsson wrote: >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... Happens all the time, which made me reinstall CB7. But then I miss some features and the layout of CB8. :( Sune, keep posting positions, I love them. And thanks. Enrique > 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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