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May-28-10
 | | beenthere240: 58...a4! sows the seeds of the stalemate position. It's clear that many of these stalemates were not last minute inspirations but actually the stinging end of a carefully calculated drawing combination. |
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| May-28-10 | | rapidcitychess: Shoot, I didn't quite notice it. Oh, well. :( |
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May-28-10
 | | YouRang: The solution is simple enough. Stalemate is the obvious tactic, only the rook is mobile, and it has only one square that makes the stalemate stick. But what a game! White worked so hard to escape the crazy-rook draw, only to fall into the stalemate trap. Good perseverance by black, but I think white should have won. For example, on move 90, white had this position:
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He played 90.Rcc4 threatening the a-pawn, but it's easily parried by ...Ra8. A stronger plan would be to create mate threats by pushing the black king against a wall with 90.Rc3+! This would go: 90...Kb2 <if 90...Rb3, then 90.Rcc4 wins the pawn> 91.Rh3 <setting up double rook rolling mate attack> Rb7+ <if 91...a3? then 92.Rd2+ Kc1 93.Rg2 wins> 92.Kc6 <black out of checks; but K now on open file FWIW> Rb3 <giving K a way to avoid being pushed to 1st rank> 93.Rh2+! <force K to a3 or lose a-pawn> Ka3 [diagram]
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94.Rhh4! <and pawn is a goner>  |
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May-28-10
| | beenthere240: 88...Rb2 threatens an entirely different type of draw. Rxb2, Kxb2 and white must give up his rook to stop the a pawn. |
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May-28-10
 | | chrisowen: No raising the standard. I salute stringing along the masterful Rc8+ crumpled, gearing white's psyche into playing Kb1. Brief copy looking for a stalemate Nimzowitsch is flagging. Drum up exposed king he nods off backward, calmness allowing Rb8. It is a thumping of game knocks, man Post must have been fuming. Let er your guard down and Aron gets back with a smacker in time. |
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May-28-10
 | | David2009: <syracrophy> Nice puzzle! Play it out here http://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-t... |
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May-28-10
| | David2009: Finding the win at move 61 (White to play) is difficult: 
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http://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-t...
Can you do better against Crafty than Post did against Nimzowitsch? |
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| May-28-10 | | VincentL: This game, like others in the puzzles this week, was played more than 100 years ago. A drawing opportunity arose (stalemate or perpetual), and was taken. But one wonders whether modern GMs would have resigned much earlier, so eliminating the possiblity of a "last minute swindle". One might argue that they should play on longer, but with the number of tournaments and games today, it would probably not be practical to do so. |
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| May-28-10 | | zooter: Well, this ain't so difficult
98...Rc4 and now the rook cannot be taken by either of the white rooks (leading to stalemate). White cannot off course move the b rook away without losing the d-rook. Time to check. Stalemate week rules! |
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| May-28-10 | | turbo231: I agree, easy for a Friday. |
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May-28-10
 | | whiteshark: Here is a tougher Friday nut for you
Oldrich Duras; Sachove Listy, 1901: 
click for larger view<White to move, draws <>> You can pee the solution at my forum... :D |
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| May-28-10 | | zooter: Rc4 draws or not? I'm a little drunk :) |
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| May-28-10 | | zooter: Ok, i got it after 98...Rc4 99.Rbxc4 white wins.. |
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May-28-10
| | whiteshark: Cheers, <zooter>! |
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May-28-10
| | YouRang: <YouRang><A stronger plan would be to create mate threats by pushing the black king against a wall with 90.Rc3+!> Well, that "stronger plan" I proposed would have been a stronger plan for *me* (at least one that I could understand). Now that I've fed the game into the computer, it seems that white's plan was fine until of course 98.Kb1? which gave up the win. Next time I might try doing the analysis *before* I post. :-\ |
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May-28-10
 | | ajk68: Way too easy for Friday. |
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May-28-10
 | | luzhin: 98.Kd1 is also winning. In fact, any legal move wins EXCEPT for 98.Kb1?? which allows the stalemate trick. The teenage Nimzovitch was quite a swindler. |
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| May-28-10 | | wals: Of course, Rb8, what else. I went for Rd8. Maybe next time. Rybka 3 1-cpu: 3071 mb hash: depth 30:
Black, down a pawn, blunders
+4.85 60...Rxf3. better, Rh8, +2.15.
White, up a Rook, blunders
=0.00 71.Kg5. better, Ke5, +4.91.
Black, down a rook,
+4.92 76...Rh6+. no better valued move available.
Black, Pawn for a Rook.
+(#9) 95...Ra6. better, Rh5, +6.05,
Rg5,+11.06.
+(#7) 96...Ra8.
+(#6) 97...Rc8+.
White, a Rook for a pawn, crashes,
=0.00 98.Kb1. better, Rbc4, or Rdc4,
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| May-28-10 | | wals: Nalimov Endgame tablesases
to move 97...Rc8+
White
Rb4-c4 win in six
Rd4-c4 win in six
Kc2-d2 win in eight
Kc2-d3 win in eight
Kc2-d1 win in sixteen
Kc2-b1 draw. |
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| May-28-10 | | apexin: I found it. It was way too easy for a friday puzzle. |
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| May-28-10 | | ohfluckaduck: Good fighting draw! Love Nimzovitch's play. |
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| Apr-27-11 | | Tigranny: Isn't 98.Kb1 a blunder because 98...Rb8 99.Rxb8 leads to stalemate? |
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| Nov-07-11 | | mslr45: 88...Rb7 and its draw sortly |
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Nov-07-11
 | | Sastre: If 88...Rb7, 89.Rd3+ Rb3 90.Rd1 still wins. |
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| Jun-30-12 | | Tigranny: I once had a game in which I planned to have a crazy rook but my opponent snatched it right away allowing me to be stalemated. |
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