Im not sure if this tactic has a name, but it is commonly missed in the endgame. First time I saw it was in a tactics book that supplied only a few of these situations (as much as perpetual check) and normally you wont even see this in a tactics book.
so for all the beginners out there trying to learn 100 openings I suggest watching the video.
Originally posted by Fat Lady To save everyone watching an eight minute video, here's the tactic:
[fen]8/1pp5/p7/P4kp1/1P6/5KP1/8/8 b - - 0 1[/fen]
Black to play and lose!
Solution (with White playing 1. g3 to start with to get round it having to be White's move in PGNs posted here):
[pgn]
[Result "0-1"]
[FEN "8/1pp5/p7/P4kp1/1P6/5K2/6P1/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
1. g3 b6 2. b5 axb5 3. a6 b4 4. a7 b3 5. a8=Q b2 6. Qa2 0-1
[/pgn]
Originally posted by Fat Lady To save everyone watching an eight minute video, here's the tactic:
[fen]8/1pp5/p7/P4kp1/1P6/5KP1/8/8 b - - 0 1[/fen]
Black to play and lose!
Solution (with White playing 1. g3 to start with to get round it having to be White's move in PGNs posted here):
[pgn]
[Result "0-1"]
[FEN "8/1pp5/p7/P4kp1/1P6/5K2/6P1/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
1. g3 b6 2. b5 axb5 3. a6 b4 4. a7 b3 5. a8=Q b2 6. Qa2 0-1
[/pgn]
thanks! the guy does ramble on and on.. and I have forgot how to put positions up
Originally posted by Fat Lady To save everyone watching an eight minute video, here's the tactic:
[fen]8/1pp5/p7/P4kp1/1P6/5KP1/8/8 b - - 0 1[/fen]
Black to play and lose!
Solution (with White playing 1. g3 to start with to get round it having to be White's move in PGNs posted here):
[pgn]
[Result "0-1"]
[FEN "8/1pp5/p7/P4kp1/1P6/5K2/6P1/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
1. g3 b6 2. b5 axb5 3. a6 b4 4. a7 b3 5. a8=Q b2 6. Qa2 0-1
[/pgn]
Hans Kmoch's "Pawn Power in Chess" covers this kind of play in detail. This is old but forgotten, I suspect because opening study is the fashion.
Funky nomenclature notwithstanding, Kmoch's work is a classic, and well worthy of study. After reading the book, stuff like this will almost pop into your head automatically, even before you consciously calculate anything.
Originally posted by Paul Leggett Hans Kmoch's "Pawn Power in Chess" covers this kind of play in detail. This is old but forgotten, I suspect because opening study is the fashion.
Funky nomenclature notwithstanding, Kmoch's work is a classic, and well worthy of study. After reading the book, stuff like this will almost pop into your head automatically, even before you consciously calculate anything.
Paul
never read that, but it sounds great. I agree that this kind of stuff is forgotten with all hundreds and hundreds of opening books each year. players memorize tons of junk to get the "slight edge" but then dont know what to do with it.
Originally posted by irontigran never read that, but it sounds great. I agree that this kind of stuff is forgotten with all hundreds and hundreds of opening books each year. players memorize tons of junk to get the "slight edge" but then dont know what to do with it.
I will have to buy that book.
I highly recommend the algebraic version. He makes up lots of unusual terms to describe various pawn formations and conditions, and they detract a little from his message. To have to read it in descriptive on top of that is a little too much, IMHO.
The plus is that he is very systematic about pawn structures and the tactics and techniques that go with them, and I promise that you will see the game in a whole new light.
Originally posted by range blasts Now I am thoroughly confused. In the games where the pawns are on the 4th and 5th ranks, why do they always play hxg4, rather than gxh4?
None of the positions in the thread have pawns on the h-file, could you restate the question?
Originally posted by range blasts Now I am thoroughly confused. In the games where the pawns are on the 4th and 5th ranks, why do they always play hxg4, rather than gxh4?
important-commonly missed endgame tactic
02 Dec '09 05:21
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