Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 09:05:53 03/04/01
[D]8/1p6/p4p1p/2p1P2k/5P2/6pP/1P4P1/6K1 w - - 0 1
Badai, 1962
A clean cut pawn ending this time, 5 versus 6 pawns. But white
to move and win. This is a rare flower and not a normal ending.
A Swedish IM once told me that he had studied and learned all
there is about pawn endings. And that he now *knew* them all.
As in the stories he then went out to play an important team match,
faced a complicated (right!) pawn ending - and lost it. They can
be real tricky. This one is about taking squares instead of pawns -
taking space instead of material. Mind you - a pawn down in a normal
ending is mostly a loss. And here white moves for the win.
The solution is further down.
Test: White to move and win. 1) Can your program find the win?
2) How much time needed?
Sune
Badai,B
Shajmati, 1962
1.f5 fxe5 2.h4 c4 3.Kf1 a5 4.Ke2 a4 [4...e4 5.Ke3 a4 6.Kf4 c3 7.Kxg3 c2 8.Kh3
c1Q 9.g4#] 5.Kf3 c3 [5...Kxh4 6.f6] 6.Kxg3 cxb2 7.Kh3 b1Q 8.g4# 1-0
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