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Weekly Endgame Study (149)

26 December 2009, 14.39 CET | By Yochanan Afek  | Filed under: Weekly endgame study | Tags:

Weekly Endgame StudyEvery week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!

A. Herbstmann
1954

White to play and win

Next week the solution.

Solution last week

Y. Afek
2007

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6 Responses to “Weekly Endgame Study (149)”

  1. RamnathBhuvanesh,R on December 26th, 2009 17:53

    took me 4 mins to solve -

    1.Ka2 (what else?) Ra5+
    2. Kb2 f5! ( now black is going to play checks along the 5th rank as white’s king can’t escape via d3,e4,f4)

    (also black can’t play Rb5+ , Rc5+ then f5 – bcoz of Ra7 in that case)

    3.Ra7!! – Ra7 4.d7! Ra5! (4…Rd7 5.f8(Q) +-)

    5. d8(R)! 1-0

  2. RamnathBhuvanesh,R on December 26th, 2009 18:04

    sorry missed a trick :)

    1.Kb2!! a1(Q) 2.Ka1! ( this is important bcoz, if 1.Kxa2 f5!=)

    2…Ra5+ (2…f5 3.Ra7!+- this is the point of Kb2)

    3.Kb2 f5 4.Ra7 Rxa7 5.d7+- (4…Rb5+ 5.Ka1! Re5 6.Ra2++-) 1-0

  3. RamnathBhuvanesh,R on December 26th, 2009 18:04

    nice one- thx mr.afek

  4. Felix on December 26th, 2009 19:27

    The one of last week was nice, too, but I just had some of the ideas (Kd5 and underpromotion came to my mind) and wasn’t very successful :)

  5. cak on December 26th, 2009 19:38

    5…Ra8 and black is winning

  6. RamnathBhuvanesh,R on December 27th, 2009 04:49

    5.f8(Q) Ra5 6.d7+-

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