Chess and the Genie of the Lamp
By on 07 Nov 26 12:33
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I bought a lamp in a charity shop (50p), I rubbed it...
..and a three wishes Genie appeared.
I took all the wishes in my next game of chess.
1st. I want to win a Rook
2nd. I want to wins a Rook
3rd. I want to win a Queen.
And to avoid any traditional Genie trickery. I insisted that at
the end of the game I would be a Queen and two Rooks ahead.
The Game I’m White.
You can see I’m already the exchange up and now after
19....Nxd3 20.Qxe8 I am a Rook ahead.
20...Qd4+ 21.Kh1 Nf2+ 22.Kg1 Nh3+ 23.Kh1 Qg1+ 24.Rxg1 I am a Queen up!
Nf2 Checkmate. (I’ve put the lamp map on E-Bay)
(btw, that was Game 11583698 JeanTylerGabriel - ZorroTheFox RHP 2016)
No.1 features a wonderful combo Morphy would have been proud of.
N, McDonald - O. Crawford, England 2026
No.2 is a standard White to play and win position.
No3. has an introduction. A. Karpov v A. Chernin, Tilburg 1992 (rapid)
In this position Karpov to play and he is in severe time trouble.
... in haste Karpov played 54.Qe6+ an illegal move. So the arbiter
stepped in and reset the position above, white to play, but white
must make a Queen move. (touch move) was it 54.Qe7+ or 54 Qd7+
I was browsing through this book again and then went trawling through
RHP games looking for games needlessly lost similar to one I spotted in
the book. I could not find a matching example but I did, however, find this.
Antoine - hjcpa RHP 2025 (white to play this position is a draw.)
White played 55.h6 Black should now play 55..Kg8 and it is a book draw.
56.hxg7 (56.h7+ Kh8 with stalemate.)56....Kxg7 57. Kf5 Kg8 etc and etc.
In the game Black played 55..gxh6 and after 56.Kf7 Black resigned.
I back tracked a few moves discovering not only did Black needlessly
lose this ending, in fact they should have won it. White made a similar
error as shown earlier by taking a pawn that should have been left alone.
Back tracking even further I found that Black missed an earlier win.
Black missed 43...Qxf2+ 44.Kxf2 Ne4+ and 45...NxQ.
Black later swapped the Queen and Knight for the f2 pawn.
That is how the resulting King and pawn ending appeared.
The thread accompanying this blog is Thread 206482
