Author: Telmo Escobar
Date: 15:03:42 04/05/02
A very hard endgame has arised in this game:
[Event "Ladder 30m"]
[Site "Athlon-1200"]
[Date "2002.04.05"]
[Round "2.1.3"]
[White "SOS"]
[Black "TheKing"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "40/1800"]
1. e4 e6 2. b3 d5 3. Bb2 dxe4 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Qe2 Be7 6. Nxe4 c5 7. O-O-O Nc6
8. Nf3 O-O 9. Kb1 Bd7 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. d4 cxd4 12. Nxd4 Nxd4 13. Qg4+ Kh8
14. Rxd4 Qc7 15. Qh4 Rg8 16. Nxf6 Rg7 17. Nd5 exd5 18. Qxe7 Re8 19. Qb4 Bf5
20. Bd3 Bxd3 21. Rxd3 Rc8 22. Rc1 Rxg2 23. Qd4+ Kg8 24. Qxa7 b6 25. Qxc7
Rxc7 26. Rg3+ Rxg3 27. hxg3 Re7 28. Rd1 Re5 29. Kc1 Kf8 30. Kd2 Rf5 31. Ke3
Re5+ 32. Kd3 Rf5 33. f4 Rh5 34. Kc3 Ke7 35. a4 Kd6 36. Kb4 Kc6 37. Rd3 Rh2
38. Rc3+ Kb7 39. Kb5 d4 40. Rd3 Rxc2 41. Rxd4 Rc5+ 42. Kb4 Rf5 43. g4 Rf6
44. f5 Kc7 45. Rc4+ Kb7 46. Rc1 Rh6 47. Kb5 Rh3 48. b4 h5 49. Re1 hxg4 50.
Re7+ Kc8 51. Rxf7 Rf3 52. Kxb6 Rf4 53. Kc6 Rc4+ 54. Kb5 Rc7 55. Rxc7+ Kxc7
56. f6 Kd7 57. f7 Ke7 58. f8=Q+ Kxf8 59. a5 g3 60. a6 g2 61. a7 g1=Q 62.
a8=Q+ Ke7 63. Qb7+ Kf8 64. Qc8+ Kg7 65. Ka6 Qa1+ 66. Kb7 Qa4 67. Qc5 Qa3
68. Qe5+ Kg8 69. Qe6+ Kf8 70. b5 Qf3+ 71. Qc6 Qa3 72. Kc8 Qh3+ 73. Kb8 Qg3+
74. Qc7 Qa3 75. b6 Ke8 76. Qa7 Qd6+ 77. Ka8 Qd5+ 78. b7 Kd7 79. Qa4+ Kc7
80. Qc2+ Kd6 81. Qg6+ Kd7 82. Qg4+ Kc7 83. Qg7+ Kd6 84. Qf8+ Kd7 85. Qc8+
Ke7 86. Qc7+ Ke8 87. Qb6 Qa2+ 88. Qa7 Qd5 89. Qe3+ Kd7 90. Qb6 Qa2+ 91. Kb8
Qa4 92. Qa7 Qb3 93. Qa5 Qg8+ 94. Ka7 Qg1+ 95. Ka8 Qg2 96. Qf5+ Kc7 97. Qc8+
Kd6 98. Qf8+ Kd7 99. Qf7+ Kd6 100. Qf6+ Kd7 101. Qd4+ Kc7 102. Qc5+ Kd7
103. Qb5+ Kc7 104. Qc4+ Kd7 105. Qa4+ Ke7 106. Qa3+ Kd7 107. Qd3+ Ke8 108.
Qb5+ Ke7 109. Ka7 Qg1+ 110. Ka6 Qa1+ 111. Qa5 Qf6+ 112. Ka7 Qd4+ 113. Ka8
Qe4 114. Qg5+ Ke8 115. Qg8+ Kd7 116. Qf7+ Kd8 117. Qb3 Kd7 118. Qb5+ Ke7
119. Qc5+ Kd7 120. Qc8+ Ke7 121. Qc3 Qa4+ 122. Kb8 Kd6 123. Qf6+ Kd7 124.
Qh6 Qa5 125. Qg7+ Kd6 126. Qg6+ Ke7 127. Qg2 Qd8+ 128. Ka7
{Draw 50 moves} 1/2-1/2
The game has many moments of interest. A crucial one is this, when SOS, in my
view, blundered exchanging rooks.
[D] 2k5/2r2R2/8/1K3P2/PP4p1/8/8/8 w - - 0 55
An human player realizes how hard -if possible- to win will be an endgame with
queens, so he wisely plays 55.Rf8+ and 56.Rg8, which apparently wins fairly
easily.
So the following position is reached:
[D] Q7/4k3/8/1K6/1P6/8/8/6q1 w - - 0 63
After some more or less natural moves this one arises:
[D] K3k3/QP6/8/3q4/8/8/8/8 b - - 0 78
I don't find similar positions in the Yugoslav book (nor in Averbach's one).
The point is that Black king is unfavourably placed here: its ideal position
would be as far as possible from the battle, at h1 say. Yet, due to TheKing's
ability (or maybe due to SOS' inability), the game was eventually drawn.
I don't know whether there are tablebases for this particular endgame.
Telmo
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