Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:03:03 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? > Test2: Who played white and composed this beauty? [Sorry, no price ;) > > Sune CM8000 doesn't see this one for a very long time: Time Depth Score Positions Moves 0:00 2/5 0.48 3038 1. g5 Nc6 2. Kf3 a5 3. gxf6+ Kxf6 0:00 5/8 0.43 62317 1. g5 Nc6 2. Kf3 a5 3. h3 fxg5 4. fxg5 Kd7 5. Kf4 0:00 5/8 0.56 92294 1. f5 g5 2. fxe6 Nc6 3. a3 a5 4. a4 bxa4 0:02 6/9 0.28 229124 1. f5 g5 2. fxe6 Nc6 3. Kf3 Kxe6 4. h4 a5 5. h5 f5 0:03 6/9 0.75 329496 1. g5 fxg5 2. fxg5 Nc6 3. Kf3 Kd7 4. h4 a5 5. Kf4 Ne7 6. Ne5+ Kc7 0:06 7/10 0.71 697676 1. g5 Nc6 2. gxf6+ Kxf6 3. Ne5 Nxe5 4. fxe5+ Ke7 5. e4 dxe4 6. Ke3 Kd7 7. Kxe4 a5 0:15 8/11 0.57 1852680 1. g5 f5 2. Ne5 Kd8 3. Nf7+ Kc7 4. Kf3 Nc6 5. Nd6 Kd7 6. h4 Ne7 0:33 9/12 0.58 4010203 1. g5 f5 2. Ne5 Kd8 3. h3 Kc7 4. h4 Nc6 5. Nxc6 Kxc6 6. Kd2 a5 7. Kd3 b4 1:24 10/13 0.52 10058312 1. g5 f5 2. Ne5 Kd8 3. h4 Kc7 4. Nf7 Nc6 5. Nd6 Nb4 6. a3 Nc2 7. Ne8+ Kd7 4:17 11/14 0.41 30465211 1. g5 fxg5 2. fxg5 Nc6 3. Kf3 a5 4. Kf4 a4 5. h3 b4 6. Nc1 Kd8 7. h4 Kd7 8. Nd3 12:34 12/15 0.40 87025398 1. g5 fxg5 2. fxg5 Nc6 3. h3 a5 4. a3 Kd7 5. Kd2 Kd8 6. h4 Kd7 7. Kc3 Kd8 8. Nf4 Kd7 9. Kd3 48:38 12/15 1.46 314703360 1. f5 g5 2. Nb4 a5 3. c6 Kd6 4. fxe6 Nxc6 5. Nxc6 Kxc6 6. e4 dxe4 7. d5+ Kd6 8. Ke3 Ke7 9. Kxe4 b4 jm
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