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Weekly Endgame Study (45)

17 November 2007 10:00 AM

Yochanan AfekEvery Saturday an endgame study is published at ChessVibes, selected by Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published.

I. Aliev
1999

White to play and win

Next week the solution.

Solution last week:

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  1. thorex on 17 November 2007 18:13 PM

    Of course we must prevent black from queening on h1, to avoid mate. But we can not simply exchange queens because after 1. …h1Q+ 2. Qxh1 Rxh1+ the black rook will simply pick up our pawns and the game is lost.

    So i started like this: 1. Qh1 Rxh1 2. a8Q Rg1 3. Qh1 Rxh1

    Now 4. a7 Rg1 a8Q+. The black king must move to Kb1/2 which alows us to capture the h2 pawn with a fork on Qb8+ and we have a winning Q vs. R ending.

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