Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 03:31:47 05/21/05
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On May 20, 2005 at 20:07:18, Telmo C. Escobar wrote: >On May 20, 2005 at 19:58:30, chandler yergin wrote: > >>On May 20, 2005 at 19:50:23, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>Here is a very silly position, constructed by Mr. Matsukevich for the purpose of >>>illustrating the tactical themes of "The Windmill". Watch how all of Black's >>>pieces drop off! >> >>Yep, and many players have fallen into the Windmill. >> > > I can see instantly that most Black pieces will be captured by means of the >well known Torre maneouvre, but think it could be not so easy, for me, to win >the resulting endgame of R+B against two knights. > > Telmo It is easy to see in the diagram that after all the pieces are eliminated from the 7th rank and g-file, that the white Rook will return to g7 with check and after Kh8 Kxa1 black is compelled to lose at least one of the Knights immediately. > > > > >>> >>>[D]5n1k/1bnbnbR1/6bn/6n1/6b1/2B3n1/1K4b1/r7 w - - 0 1
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