Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 04:07:50 07/26/01
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[D]4r2k/1p4p1/p1bQ3p/8/2P2P2/1P3P1P/P5K1/3Rq1N1 b - - 0 36 Hi Antonio, This is a very interesting position indeed. I assume I would play 36…Re2+ here, and end up nowhere. The sequence after Bxf3: 37. Kxf3 Re3+ 38. Kg4 Qg3+ 39. Kf5 Kh7 is forced, I think. The basic problem is that the white queen can't move, as it has to prevent mate on g6. If you want to hold on to that extra knight, the only way to do is shuffle your pawns at the white queenside as the rest of the pieces have to sit as quiet as possible. But that *always* leads to the manoeuvre ...Qg2 and ..Qc2+ I think Noonian works the same and tried to hold on to this advantage by playing 40.c5, but as far as I can see the only way to prevent this manoeuvering of the queen is giving up the knight and shielding the king with the rook: 40.Rd5 and 41. Re5, and the king has an extra field to hide (e6!) when black would play Qg2 and Qc2+. (In that case white has an extra knigth and of course is winning). So in this case I think **40.c5?** is the culprit. After 40.Rd5 black should take back the knight with 40...Qxg1 and 41.Re5 and black has advantage, although I don't know if it's enough to win. [D]8/1p4pk/p2Q3p/4RK2/2P2P2/1P2r2P/P7/6q1 b - - 0 40 J.
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