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Last update: Friday June 3, 2005 9:44
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Tal-Gipslis
Soviet Championship- Riga,
1958
White to play.
Tal is a pawn ahead but it looks as though he will still have a lot of work to do. One of his strengths though was his ability to maximise the tactical possibilities in such positions and soon has Black at his mercy.
23 Bxf6 Rxf6 24 Rxd7! Qxd7 25 Qxa8+ Rf8 26 Qxa6 1-0
Black resigned as he can only avoid further material loss by allowing the exchange of queens on e6.
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M. Johansson-Wojtkiewicz
Limhamn
1990
White to play and win, do not be afraid to speculate to accumulate!!
Solution: 1 Bxg6! hxg6 2 Qxg6+! fxg6 3 Nxe6+ Kf7 4 Nxd8+ Kg7 5 Ne6+ Kf7 6 Rxh8 Kxe6 7 Rxg8 and White will win the ending comfortably.
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A. Kuzmin- Ostenstad
Biel 1990
Black to play and win.
Queen and minor piece endings are notoriously tricky, here the initial idea is quite straightforward but the follow up is particularly instructional.
1...Qg5! 2 Bf3
If White plays 2 Qxg5 then
2...Nxe4+ followed by 3...Nxg5 leaves the minor piece ending fairly trivial for
Black to win.
2...Nb3+! 3 Ke2
3 axb3? Qxe3+ 4 Kxe3 a2 and
the a-pawn queens.
3...Nc1+
Possible due to the fact that the
knight is indirectly protected by the queen on g5.
4 Kd2 Qxe3+ 5 Kxe3 Nxa2 6 Kd2 b4 0-1
White resigned as after 7 cxb4 Nxb4 8 Kc3 a2 9 Kb2 c3+ he can no longer stop
one of the pawns going through.
