Study Puzzle of the Day 2/12/2020
Simple and elegant. White to move and win (N. Rossolimo, 1927) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Tag: Pawns on Adjacent Files
Study Puzzle of the Day 17/11/2020
One to show at your next chess party 🙂 White to move and win (Kashdan & Horowitz, 1928) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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RMP-604
When, in a similar position, the white pawn is one square back, Black has the ability to advance his pawn to the fifth rank. It is important to know that White can realize his small advantage in that case as well. We will investigate this theoretically very interesting case by analyzing the ending of […]
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RMP-602
When he has a “wrong” bishop, the White’s task is much more complex because it is usually out of the question to exchange rooks. However, when the black pawn is fixed on the seventh rank, then White easily wins because the black king has no living space. The next position occurred in the game […]
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RMP-601
Black’s chances of rescue are much higher when pawns are on adjacent files because a pawn exchange motif emerges. The most complex positions are with pawns near the edge of the board, and for White it is more favorable when he has a “right” bishop with the edge pawn. We see such a case […]
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RMP-401
For the end of this chapter there is an interesting study by Y. Averbakh from 1981.
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RMP-400
When, in a similar position, White has an edge pawn and Black has g-pawn, position is a draw if Black has a “fianchettoed” bishop. Very instructive is the ending, which occurred with reversed colors in the game Murey-Ftačnik, New York 1987.
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RMP-399
The same winning motif with a coordinated attack of the rook and pawn on the opponent’s backward pawn decides even faster when Black has an edge pawn. The next position arose in the game Zueger-Arnason, Randers 1982.
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RMP-398
When, in a similar position, the black pawn is in the starting position, it is crucial whether the king and the bishop cover the surrounding squares in the right way. The next position, which emerged in the game Bolbochan-Maderna, Mar del Plata in 1949, has two significant shortcomings compared to example 391.
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RMP-397
When, in a similar position, a black pawn is fixed on a square of bishop’s color, White usually wins by careful transformation into a position with close pawns. We will get to know all the complexity of the winning strategy on the example of the ending of the game Korchnoi-Speelman, Brussels 1985.
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