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| Dec-05-06 |
| JustAFish: Oops. I was looking for some sort of Zugzwang situation. The correct line was so much simpler than the crazy tempo feinting that I was puzzling through that I'm embarrased... |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| Larsker: This puzzle is in the Russian chess training program CT-Art. Highly recommended. I therefore not so much solved this puzzle but just recognized it. |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| zb2cr: I love it! Thank you, <chessgames.com>! I can always use more endgame work. Found it easily, perhaps 5 seconds. The old Pawn breakthrough! |
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Dec-05-06
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| WarmasterKron: I got this fairly quickly, it was more or less just a matter of making sure White would win the queening race. Good thing I did get it, or I'd have looked a bit silly after my wish for king and pawn endgame week yesterday. |
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Dec-05-06
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| YouRang: I got it pretty quickly, but only because I've looked at lots of chess puzzles like this before (puzzles with simple *looking* positions are my favorite). |
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Dec-05-06
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| kevin86: I answered this one! I looked at king manoevers on the right wing-then I went for the sacrificial breakthrough on the queenside-which of course,wins. a5,b6,d6 are the three moves that will fast achieve a queen-black's pawns are too far back and the king is far from the "square" of any of the awns in question.
Order IS important: after 38 a5 bxa5 39 d6?? would be a fatal error. |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| Stonewaller2: So ... h5-4 is Black's big mistake, punished by White's simplification and 34.  f3! What if anything was the matter with 24. ...  xf3 - ? And one more pointless question, why is this a QGD instead of a QGA after 2. ... dc - ? |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| vibes43: <JustAFish: Oops. I was looking for some sort of Zugzwang situation. The correct line was so much simpler than the crazy tempo feinting that I was puzzling through that I'm embarrased...> Me too. I thought white was outgunned on the left. I'll never forget that term "half passed pawn" d5. Great puzzle. |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| twin phoenix: isn't black winning after 32.....QxQ? why move the Q to f6 instead? (32...QxQ 33. dXQ, K-f6 34. white moves, KX Pawn?) |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| sfm: <isn't black winning after 32.....QxQ?> Nope, as White runs to g4 with his king and eats everything. Black is lost. Curiously, 32-,Qf6 33.Qxf6!! didn't help. Very fine play by Wade, who must have calculated the variations given by Azaris below. Especially 35.-,b5 looks like a smart defence, but as shown, it does not work. |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| flott: JustaFish and vibes43: I was looking for some sort of Zugzwang situation, too. And I found: 38. h3, Kg5 39. Ke3, Kf6 40. Ke2, Kg5 41. Kf3, Kf6 42. Kg4. Not as nice as the text move, but still a clear win for white. Note the characteristic trinangular movement of the white king. |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| argishti: 34. b5 would have saved the game for black very easily. Kg5?? there is no way he can develop on the king side for sure. |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| jackmandoo: I was totally baffled when I logged on today and saw the puzzle of the day. I couldn't make any sense of it at all whatsoever. It took me a few minuites and then I finally noticed that it wasn't a chess puzzle I was analyzing, but a forest green colored trench coat with navy trimming! I had changed homepages the night before from "Chessgames" to the L.L. Bean web site! Oh what a Hoot! |
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Dec-05-06
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| Karpova: took me a second to find a5 (ok, exaggerating - two seconds) |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| fgh: Very easy, and yet so nice (sweeping as ice). |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| cade: Korchnoi should have played 35...b5 and then 36...b6 |
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| Dec-05-06 |
| cjhasbrouck: Pawn endings all week huh?
I'm so clueless...
Failed both monday and today, so there's definitely no chance I'll get wednesday or later. You win, Chessgames :( |
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Dec-05-06
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| Richard Taylor: I solve all these puzzles (even the 20 movers) almost instantly but I dont like boasting about that. |
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Dec-05-06
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| GannonKnight: I'm trying to improve my weakness at K&P endings. Happy to say that I got it! How do I find out what the Monday puzzle was? |
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| Dec-06-06 |
| vibes43: <flott:I found: 38. h3, Kg5 39. Ke3, Kf6 40. Ke2, Kg5 41. Kf3, Kf6 42. Kg4. Not as nice as the text move, but still a clear win for white.> But what if: 38. h3, g5 |
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Dec-06-06
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| Richard Taylor: <GannonKnight> I think you have to be Premium Member and you can go then to the members area where they have a tactics archive of all the problems going back to - about 2002 or maybe more. |
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| Jul-09-07 |
| Fast Gun: Ray Keene writing recently in his Times chess column featured the position from move 38 as spot the winning move: Wade's 38 a5! was very subtle and well spotted, however unless I have missed something, why did Korchnoi not exchange queens on move 32?
For example
32. Qe6 Qxe6
33. dxe Kf6
Does this not win the e-pawn, or have I missed something? |
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| Nov-23-07 |
| newzild: No, exchanging queens does not win a pawn. White marches his king to g4. |
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| Aug-14-08 |
| yxcvbnm: i might err, but shouldn`t "queeens-gambit-declined" mean that korchnoi does NOT take the c-pawn on move two? |
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Dec-01-08
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| Benzol: This is one of Bob Wade's games I particularly like. In this tournament Korchnoi finished in joint 1st place with Reshevsky against a strong field that included Szabo, Evans, Taimanov, Unzicker, Olafsson, Gligoric, Uhlmann, Benko, Ivkov and Fischer. He only lost two games, one to Rosetto and this one. |
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