XIIIIIIIIY Legendary endings 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 In chess we have some legendary classical 9L+-+-+-sn0 endings, which are appearing from time to 9+-+-+-+p0 time and in such cases top players have to 9-+-+-+k+0 demonstrate knowledge of classics. 9+-+-mK-+-0 Nowadays it is more difficult, as we have xiiiiiiiiy special time control without adjourments Incredibly, first time this position appeared and 30 sec incriment. For this reason the in analyse of the great composer and well importance of studying endgame is before Harwitz! obvious. Interesting to see one recent 1.Ld7 example, how top player founded classical 1.Lc6? Kg1 2.Lh1? Kh1 3.Kf1 Kh2 4.Kf2 manoevre. And if it is still question - do Sg6 5.Kf1 Kg3 6.Kg1 Se5 7.Kh1 Sg4 they know it or they try to find it during 8.Kg1 h2 9.Kh1 Sf2#. the game? We used to call this process 1...h2 many years ago - to reinvent the bicycle! 1...Sf3 2.Ke2 Sd4 3.Ke3 h2. This position was analyzed 150 years ago! 2.Lc6 Kg1 2...Sf3 3.Ke2 h1D 4.Lf3. Gashimov V. : Ponomariov R. 3.Lh1!! Kh1 Khanty-Mansiysk 2011 3...Sg2 4.Ke2 Sf4 5.Ke1. XIIIIIIIIY 4.Kf2! 9-+-+-+-+0 The idea has to be conducted correctly. It 9+-+-+-+-0 is always room for wrong decision: 4.Kf1? 9-+-+-+-+0 Sf3 5.Kf2 Sd2. ½. 9+-+-+k+K0 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+n0 Horwitz B. 9pvL-+-+-+0 The Chess Monthly, 1885 XIIIIIIIIY 9+-+-+-+-0 9lsN-+-+-+0 xiiiiiiiiy 9zP-mK-+-+-0 82.Kh4 Sf4 83.Kg3 Ke4 84.La1 Sd3 9-+-+-+-+0 85.Kg2 Ke3 86.Kg3 Sc5 87.Kg2 Ke2 9+-+-+-+-0 88.Kg3 Sa4 9-mk-+-+-+0 He built the perfect Harwitz position and 9+-+-+-+-0 can proceed with King to c1, according to 9-+-+-+-+0 Chekhover manoevre, but Ponomariov is 9+-+-+-+-0 not convinced yet! xiiiiiiiiy 89.Kg2 Sb6 90.Kg3 Sc4 91.Kg2 Se3 1.Kb6! Kc4 92.Kg3 Sd1 93.Kg2 Ke3 94.Kg3 Kd2 1...Ka4 2.Sc6 Kb3 3.Sa5 Kb4 4.Sb7 Kc4 95.Kf3 Kd3 96.Kf4 Kc2 97.Ke4 Sb2 5.Kc7 Kd5 6.Kb8. 98.Ke3 Sa4! 99.Ke2 Kc1! 2.Sa6 Kd4 Yes, it is exact position from Chekhover 2...Lf3 3.Sc5 La8 4.Sb7 Kd5 5.Kc7 Ke6 study, but which first was found by 6.Sa5 Ke7. Study Chekhover - it is just Horwitz. Now it is easy. sideline of Horwitz! 100.Kd3 Kb1 101.Kd2 Sb2 102.Kc3 Ka1 3.Sc7 103.Kc2 Sd3 0:1. 3.Sc5! Kd5 4.Sb7 Ke6 5.Kc7.
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3...Lg2 4.Se6 Ke5 5.Sd8 La8 6.Kc7 Kd5! Lehmann H. : Stephan W. 7.Sb7 Berlin West 1953 7.Kb8? Kd6! 8.Ka8 Kc7. XIIIIIIIIY 7...Ke6 8.Sa5 Ke7 9.Kc8 Ke8 10.Sc4! 9-+-+-+-+0 Ke7 11.Kb8 Kd8 12.Sa5 Kd7 13.Sb7! 9+-+-+-+-0 Kc6 14.Ka8 Kc7 15.Sd6 9-+-+-+-+0 and it is Chekhover! 1:0. 9+-+-vL-+-0 9-+-+K+-+0 9+-+n+-+-0 9p+k+-+-+0 Horwitz B. 9+-+-+-+-0 1885 xiiiiiiiiy XIIIIIIIIY 9-mK-mk-+-+0 After war generation was not very precise 9zP-+-+-+-0 in the endgames and in German magazin it 9-+-+-+-+0 was considerred as a draw! And it was 9+-+-+-+-0 written, that everybody has to know how to 9-+-+l+-+0 play such endings! But Ernst Gottschalk 9+-+-+-+-0 from Braunschweig wrote a letter about 9-+-+-+-+0 this mistake. Then it was some long 9+N+-+-+-0 discussion, during which, the old analyse xiiiiiiiiy of Harwitz was remembered. When White King is not on c8, then 1.La1 Sb2?? winning manoevre is not existing! Way to win is simple as classics found it: 1.Sc3 La8 2.Sa4 Lg2 3.Sc5 La8 4.Sb7 1...Sc5 2.Ke3 Kb1 3.Lh8 Sa4. Kd7 5.Ka8 Kc8 ½. 2.Ke3 Kb1 3.Kd2 Ka1 4.Kc1 Sd3 5.Kc2 ½. Stein L. : Dorfman C. USSR 1970 Gerbaus XIIIIIIIIY 1920 9-+-+-+-+0 XIIIIIIIIY 9+-+-vL-+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9+-+-+-+-0 9-+-+n+-+0 9-sn-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9+-+-+-+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9p+k+K+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9+-+-+-+-0 9-+-+L+-zp0 xiiiiiiiiy 9+-+-mK-mk-0 There are funny annotations of the legend xiiiiiiiiy of Yugoslavian chess IM Rudolf Maric. Few chessplayers accidently were First, it seems that he does not know which developing the same idea in very concrete Dorfman plays - it was not IGM Josif but situations, forgetting about the invention weaker player Cicero, plus Maric is not and the inventor. Everything is known aware of Horwitz analysis! before, but the position was published! 1.Lf6 Sd3 2.La1! Sb2 3.Ke1 Kb1 1.Lf3 Sf4 2.Lh1 Sg2 3.Ke2 Sh4 4.Ke1 Sf5 3...Sa4 4.Ke2 Kc1 5.Ke1 Sc5 6.Ke2 Kb1 5.La8 Sh4 6.Lh1 ½. 7.Kd1 Sd3 8.Kd2 Sb2 (Nunn), but it is known from Horwitz till to Chekhover! 4.Kd2!= Ka1 5.Kc1! Sc4 6.Kc2 ½.
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Prokop F. De Feijter C. 1930 1936 XIIIIIIIIY XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+k+-+0 9-+-+-+-+0 9zP-+-+-+-0 9zp-mK-+-+-0 9-+-+K+-+0 9P+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9+-+-+k+-0 9N+-+l+-+0 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9+lsN-+-+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9+-+-+-+-0 xiiiiiiiiy xiiiiiiiiy There were few brilliant old studies on 1.Sb5 Kf6! 2.Sa7 Lc4 3.Sb5! Ke7! this subject. 3...Lb5 4.a7. 1.Ke5! La8 2.Sb6 Lb7 3.Ke6! Kd8 4.Kd6 4.a7 Ld5 5.Sd6 La8! 6.Sc4! Ld5 7.Kc8 Ke8 5.Kc7 Lg2 6.Sc8! 7.Sa5! La8 8.Kc8. 6.Sc4! Ke7 7.Kc8 Lf3 8.Sa5 La8 9.Kc7 7...Le4 8.Sa5 La8 9.Sb7 Ke6 10.Sb7 Ke7 11.Sd8 Ke8 12.Se6 Ke7 9.Kc7! Ke8 10.Sc4 Ke7 11.Kb8 Kd8 13.Sd4 Ke8 14.Sf5! 12.Sa5 Kd7 13.Sb7. 6...La8! 7.Kb8 Kd8 8.Sd6! Kd7 9.Sb7! 9...Ke8 10.Sd6 Ke7 11.Kc7 Ke6 12.Sc4 Kc6 10.Ka8 Kc7 11.Sd6 1:0. Ke7 13.Kb8 Kd8 14.Sa5 Kd7 15.Sb7 Kc6 16.Ka8 Kc7 17.Sd6 1:0. De Feijter C. 1936 Chekhover V. XIIIIIIIIY 1939 9-+-+-+-+0 XIIIIIIIIY 9+-+-+-+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9-+-+-+L+0 9zP-mK-mk-+-0 9+-+-+-+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9-+K+-+n+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9+-+-+-+p0 9-+N+-+-+0 9-+-+-mk-zP0 9+-+-+l+-0 9+-+-+-+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 xiiiiiiiiy 9+-+-+-+-0 But there were some wrong positions xiiiiiiiiy either! 1.Sa5 La8 2.Kc8!! 1.Kc3! Sh2 2.Lf5 Sg4! 3.Kd2! h2 4.Le4 This is important finding, how to get Se3 5.Lh1! Sf5! 6.Lb7 Kf1 7.La8 Sh4 favourable position. But it was found by 8.Lh1 Sg2 9.Kd1 Kf2 10.Kd2 Se3! Harwitz many years ago. There were no 11.Kd3 Sf5 12.Kd2 endgame databases, so such eminent Or 12.Ld5 Kg1 13.Ke2 Sh4 14.Le4 Sg2. composer repeated old finding! 12...Kg1 13.Ke1 Sh4 14.Ke2 Sg2 15.Kf3 2...Ke8 3.Sc4 Ke7 4.Kb8 Kd8 5.Sa5 Kd7 Se3?? 6.Sb7 Kc6 7.Ka8 Kc7 8.Sd6 Simple win here 15...Kh1! 16.Kf2 Se3. Exactly, what performed Ponomariov!! 16.Ke3 Kh1 17.Kf2 ½. 1:0.
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Gufeld E. : Smyslov V. 2.Kf4! Ke1 Moscow 1966 2...Lh1 3.Ke5 Ke3 4.Sb3! Kd3 5.Sa5! Kc3 XIIIIIIIIY (5...La8 6.Kd6! Kd4 7.Kc7) 6.Kd6! La8 9-mK-mk-+-+0 7.Kc7 Kb4 8.Kb8. 9zP-+-+-+-0 3.Ke3! 9-sn-+-+-+0 3.Ke5? Kd2! 4.Sb3 Kc3 5.Sd4 Kc4; 3.Sb3? 9+-+-sN-+-0 Ke2 4.Sc5 Kd2! 5.Ke5 Kc3! 9-+-+-+-+0 3...Kd1 9+-+-+-+-0 3...Kf1 4.Sb3 Kg2 5.Kd4 Kf3 6.Kc5 Ke4 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 7.Kd6 Kf5 (7...Kd3 8.Kc7) 8.Kc7 Ke6 xiiiiiiiiy 9.Sa5; 3...Lb7 4.Kd4 Kd2 5.Sb3 Kc2 6.Sa5 Very funny, that a bit similar idea La8 7.Kc5 Kc3 8.Kb6 Kd4 9.Kc7; 3...Lh1 happened in the Knight endgame. 4.Kd4 Kd2 5.Sb3 Kc2 6.Sa5. 1...Sa8 2.Kb7! 4.Sd3 Kc2 2.Ka8 Kc7! (but not wrongly 4...Lb7 5.Kd4 Kd2 6.Sc5 La8 7.Sb3 Kc2 recommended by Gufeld 2...Kc8 3.Sf7 Kc7 8.Sa5. 4.Sd6 winning,as in our main examples). 5.Kd4! Kb3 6.Kc5! Ka4 7.Kb6! Kb3 2...Sc7 3.Sc4 Sa8 8.Se5 Kb4 9.Sc6 Kc4 10.Sa5 Kd5 11.Kc7 3...Kd7 4.Se3 Kd6 (4...Kd8 5.Sd5 Sa8 1:0. 6.Kc6) 5.Sd5. 4.Se3 Sc7 5.Sd5 Sa8 6.Kc6!! 1:0. Nunn J. 1995 XIIIIIIIIY Nunn J. 9l+-sN-+-+0 1995 9zP-+-+-+-0 XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-+-+0 9l+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9zP-+-+-+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9+-+-+-mK-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9-+-+-+-+0 9+K+-mk-+-0 9+-+-+-+-0 xiiiiiiiiy 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-sN-+-mk-0 1.Kc1! xiiiiiiiiy 1.Kc2? Ke2! 2.Kc3 Ke3! 3.Kc4 Ke4! IGM John Nunn in his excellent book 4.Kc5 (4.Sf7 Kf5! 5.Kc5 Ke6) 4...Ke5! Secrets of Minor-Piece Endings developed 5.Kb6 (5.Sc6 Ke6!) 5...Kd6! the subject maximally and said probably 1...Kf2 the last word in the theory of this position 1...Ke2 2.Kc2!; (not in practice!). For every payer it will be 1...Lh1 2.Kc2 Ke2 3.Kc3 Ke3 4.Kc4 Kf4 extremely instructive just to follow and to 5.Kc5 La8 6.Kd6; enjoy John Nunns findings! 1...Ld5 2.Kc2 Ke2 3.Kc3 Ke3 4.Kb4 Kd4 1.Kf5! 5.Kb5! La8 6.Kb6! 1.Kf4? Kf2! 2.Ke5 (2.Sb3 Ke2! 3.Sc5 2.Kb2! Kd2! 4.Ke5 Kc3! 5.Sa4 Kb4 6.Sb6 Kc5) 2.Kd2? Kf3! 3.Kd3 Kf4! 4.Kd4 Kf5! 2...Ke3! 3.Kd6 Kd4! 4.Kc7 Kc5 5.Sd3 5.Kc5 Ke5! Kb5. 2...Ke2 3.Kc2! Kf3 1...Kf2 3...Kf2 4.Kb3 Kf3 5.Kb4! Kf4 6.Kb5! Kf5 1...Kg2 2.Ke6 Kf3 3.Kd7 Ke4 4.Kc7 Ke5 7.Kb6! (4...Kd5 5.Sb3! Ke6 6.Sa5) 5.Sb3!; 1...Kf1 4.Kb3! Ke3 5.Kc3! Kf4 6.Kb4! Ke4 2.Ke6. 7.Kc4! Kf5 8.Kb5! Ke5 9.Kc5! Kf6 10.Kd6 1:0.