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Michael Adams vs Humpy Koneru
Ruy Lopez Chess Festival (2008), Merida ESP, rd 2, Apr-06
Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Chigorin Defense (C97)  ·  1-0

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Apr-14-08  Whitehat1963: What's the finish?
Apr-14-08  Andrew Chapman: h5 maybe comes into it? It certainly looks hopeless if you are playing a stronger player whose expertise is in accumulating positional advantages and strangling the opposition slowly
Apr-06-09  aazqua: I think the finish is that white has an extra pawn, a protected passed pawn, pressure on the king's side and black has absolutely no counter play. I'm not sure I could beat Humpy in this position but I'm pretty sure that Adams could.
Apr-16-16  tigreton: The key of the game is the c6 square. First, Adams controls it with Cd2-b3-a5. Later he puts his bishop on b3 so, in case the knight on c6 were captured, suddenly there would be a lot of pressure along this diagonal, specially against f7. Adams masterly combines play on the queenside and the kingside. And the c6 square is a trampoline for different White pieces, the knight, the rook, and finally a passed pawn.
Oct-20-22
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  keypusher: The SF line at the end is 44....Qc8 45.Qe7 Qf8 46.Qa7 followed by c6-c7 winning the knight.

If Black tries to "pass" he gets mated: 44....Nb6 45.h5 Na8 (45....Nxd5 giving White a protected passed pawn on c6 is clearly hopeless) 46.h6+ Kh7 47.Qf6! Kxh6 48.Qh8+ Kg5 49.g3 Kg4 50.Kg2 Qd8 51.Qh3+ Kg5 52.Qh4#.


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The position after 19....Ne7 is given in Aagaard's _Positional Chess_ in the chapter on weaknesses. Adams transfers the knight to a5 for the reasons <tigreton> already pointed out. When I was looking at the position myself I expected Black to try to exchange all the rooks. But she would have been in for a rough time no matter what.

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