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IMJohnCox God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1551 Location: London Joined: 01/28/06 Gender:	Re: Amusing endgame I watched last weekend Reply #9 - 12/04/07 at 14:40:09	Post Tools	Print Post
	There's an Adams game where White also fell for this. I forget who he was, but evidently someone good enough to reach a drawn pawn ending against Mickey.


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micawber God Member Offline like many sneaks and skunks in history he's a poet Posts: 852 Location: Netherlands Joined: 09/07/05 Gender:	Re: Amusing endgame I watched last weekend Reply #8 - 12/01/07 at 11:01:51	Post Tools	Print Post
	Smyslov_Fan, There is even more hope for you as IGM Ftacnik fell for it as well. In the second diagram 1...g5 was also answered by 2.g4!


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Amusing endgame I watched last weekend Reply #7 - 12/01/07 at 03:04:27	Post Tools	Print Post
	I am surprised that an IM would have missed white's continuation after 1...g5?? This well-known mistake has been around for more than 100 years! Oh well, at least there's hope for me to score a win against an IM from a dead lost endgame!


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Bonsai God Member Offline Posts: 622 Joined: 03/13/04 Gender:	Re: Amusing endgame I watched last weekend Reply #6 - 11/29/07 at 22:16:08	Post Tools	Print Post
	Quote: Hmmmm No pieces!??? I just see empty boards... Me as well now. Something wrong with the chess diagram website, I guess. Here's the FEN for the original diagram: 8/6p1/4pp2/7p/3Pk2P/4P1P1/5K2/8 b - - 0 1 Or also just listing the pieces: white: Kf2, pawns on d4,e3,g3,h4 black: Ke4, pawns on e6,f6,g7,h5


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Viking God Member Offline Posts: 673 Location: Norway Joined: 10/12/04 Gender:	Re: Amusing endgame I watched last weekend Reply #5 - 11/29/07 at 19:32:14	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hmmmm No pieces!??? I just see empty boards...


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chk God Member Offline a pawn is a pawn Posts: 1063 Location: Athens Joined: 10/26/06 Gender:	Re: Amusing endgame I watched last weekend Reply #4 - 11/29/07 at 13:08:21	Post Tools	Print Post
	I agree too about 1. ... Kd3! 2. Kf3 g5 (3. g4 hxg4+) and 1. ... g5? 2. g4! I liked the little details of this position

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Bibs God Member Offline Posts: 2338 Joined: 10/24/06	Re: Amusing endgame I watched last weekend Reply #3 - 11/29/07 at 10:08:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	I'm guessing g4. First thing to look at anyhow. Pls keep the mocking to a minimum if I am wrong....


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micawber God Member Offline like many sneaks and skunks in history he's a poet Posts: 852 Location: Netherlands Joined: 09/07/05 Gender:	Re: Amusing endgame I watched last weekend Reply #2 - 11/29/07 at 08:07:14	Post Tools	Print Post
	Thx Bonsai for sharing this position with us! I agree with JonHecht. The solution of your puzzle must be 1...Kd3 indeed, when 2.Kf3 can be met with 2...g5, because white has no longer his saving reply against 1...g5. By the way securing the invasion of the King is not the whole story. Black may have been tempted by the following line: 1..g5 2.Ke2,g4! 3.Kd2 [[3.Kf2,Kd3]],Kf3 4.Kd3,f5. Unfortunately white has a much stronger reply to 1...g5.......... 8/8/1p3pp1/4k2p/p3P2P/P3K1P1/1P6/8 b - - http://www.france-echecs.com/diagramme/imgboard.phpfen=8/8/1p3pp1/4k2p/p3P2P/P3K...; Ree-Ftacnik 1978 is very similar, and rather famous. Ftacnik played 1...g5? in this position, which has the same refutation as your position. An IM should have been aware of this.
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JonHecht Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 345 Joined: 01/17/07	Re: Amusing endgame I watched last weekend Reply #1 - 11/29/07 at 07:37:13	Post Tools	Print Post
	I like Kd3 first, then g5. I looked at f5 with some tricks, but simply g5 after first securing the invasion of the K makes more sense.


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Bonsai God Member Offline Posts: 622 Joined: 03/13/04 Gender:	Amusing endgame I watched last weekend 11/29/07 at 00:33:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	This is a rather amusing endgame I watched last weekend (this was board #1 in a team match and it was rather a relief that our player as white did not loose this game...): http://www.france-echecs.com/diagramme/imgboard.phpfen=xxxxxxxx%2Fxxxxxxpx%2Fxxx... Black (an IM) is obviously doing very well and is in fact winning. He played 1...g5 here. Can you spot why that is wrong and what he should have done instead? PS: Computers find the right way very easily, so don't use them.


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