keypusher: What a wondrous ending! Playing through the moves, Black's 43rd and 44th came as complete shocks.<Chessical> <Unfortunately, Tartakower did not comment upon this endgame even as an extract in his collected games.>
Well, when do I ever get to correct Chessical? :-) This game from Black's 38th move is given as Position XVIII at page 144 of the Dover reprint of Vol. 2 of Tartakower's collected games.
His annotations (which I have not checked against an engine) are below.
After 39.Qxd4, he writes <If he plays the passive 39.Qe2, then 39....a5! 40.Kg1 b4, etc.>
He describes 42....gxh4 as <the start of a Machiavellian plan> and adds <Ill-judged, on the other hand, are exchanges by 42....Nf4+? 43.Nxf4 exf4 44.f3.>
Of 43.f4, he writes <Otherwise, there follows 43....Kg5.>
After 43....h3+!, he says <A diversionary sacrifice preparing another, still more substantial and astounding.>
Of 45....Ke5, he says <The King will make hay of the enemy pawns.>
He notes that 50....d5! prevents Ke4.
Kibitzing
sac: 44...Nxf4+
