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Sultan Khan vs Savielly Tartakower
Sultan Khan - Tartakower (1931), Semmering AUT, rd 5, Jan-22
French Defense: Steinitz Variation (C11)  ·  1-0

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Jan-05-08  armtwister: Perfect Example of Bad Bishop vs Good Knight Endgame!!!
Jan-05-08  CapablancaFan: Black's bishop stinks to high heaven here, and falls because of it.
May-08-15  zanzibar: Euwe discusses Grigoriev's analysis of this game in Example #143 (p90) of his book <A Guide to Chess Endings>, from move 74.

Playing it over, the critical position is Black's 48th move:


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After 48...Bc8 Khan plays nicely at this point, locking Black's king behind his own 4th rank, and seeing the fantastic knight maneuver - b6-c5-d6-f4.

Jan-10-16  rookpawn101: Flawless endgame technique displayed by The Sultan! I often wonder where he learnt it all? An underappreciated gem.
Jan-27-24
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  kingscrusher: Quite amazing and artful how the c5 square becomes key to making progress in the classic good knight vs bad bishop endgame.
Jan-27-24
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  keypusher: Position after 76.Kd6!:


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The engine informs that it's mate in 50 after ...Kxg8. It's remarkable how simple the position is to play for White. The black K is stuck in a little box in the corner. White first advances the d-pawn and wins the bishop, then shoulders the black K aside and wins the g-pawn and queens it. The pawn queens from here even if Black has the opposition.


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But it's one thing to play out the position, and another to calculate everything in advance as Sultan Khan did, where the smallest error would lead to a draw.

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