Weekly endgame study | July 11, 2010 20:26

Weekly Endgame Study (177)

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!



Y. Afek
2008

White to play and draw

Next week the solution.


Solution last week

Below you see the position from the game Gelfand-Wang Yue, Russian Team Ch 2010. In the dropdown selector above the board you can pick the position with the rook on g1, which was the 'study' Gelfand showed to Carlsen at the Kings' Tournament in Bazna.

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IM Yochanan Afek is a chess player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. His complete selection of studies can be found here.

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JustBe's picture

One line is not clear to me in solution of last week:

72. Rh2! Kh4 73. Kf4 Ng8 74. Rd2 Nf6 75. Ke3

Actually here I stopped calculating cause I thought white can't allow.

75.... Kg3

One line:

76. Rd6 Nh5

Not 76. ..... h2 77. Rxf6 h1Q 78. Rg6+ Kh2 59. Rh6+ and Rxh1 1- 0

77. Rg6+ Kh4 78. Kf2 h2 79. Kg2 Nf4+ and Nxg6 draw

JustBe's picture

Aah

79. Rg4 mate

Hmm..

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