RMP-611
A draw is also possible by pinning the bishop and the rook to the very edge of the chessboard. The next position occurred, with reversed colors of the pieces, in the game Meduna-Neckar, Ostrava 1976.
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Tag: Passivity
RMP-481
That Black has unsolvable problems in similar positions, is also confirmed by the following example (Chigorin-Olland, Karlovy Vary 1907).
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RMP-480
A significantly different balance of power is when the black king is not near his distant passed pawn. The passed pawn is exposed to attack, so the bishop is tied up in his defense. White then usually wins if he can “probe” another weakness on the other wing, because it will overload the bishop […]
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RMP-269
The cause of defeat can sometimes be a very clumsy position of the pieces. A rare example of the “burying” of pieces, culminating in zugzwang, is seen in Isenegger’s 1964 study.
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Q-349
The following example confirms that chess is an inexhaustible source of beauty from which even the most unexpected possibilities originate (A. Gurvich).
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Study Puzzle of the Day 3/11/2019
Can White save his packed up rook? White to move and draw (V. Kovalenko, 1971) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Study Puzzle of the Day 20/7/2019
Simple little motif worth noting, you might use it one day! White to move and win (D. Gurgenidze, 2005) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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B-829
If pawns are on squares of the same colour as the bishop and there may be danger of a blockade, a win will be possible only when the enemy pieces are exceptionally passive. Such a case is shown in a study by A. Herbstmann, published in 1930.
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B-753
One of very important positional features is also the pawn position with respect to the bishop. Pawns fixed on same-coloured squares as the bishop are weak threefold. Not only are they exposed to attack and drastically restrict the activity of own bishop, but they also in no way prevent penetration of the enemy king […]
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RMP-41
In some cases black pawn is not affecting the play at all. Reason for that lies, of course, in bad position of black pieces. Let’s see the 1948. Averbakh study where Black on move cannot be saved.
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