important-commonly missed endgame tactic

check this out-

http://www.chessvideos.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3547

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.

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To save everyone watching an eight minute video, here's the tactic:


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):

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]

Old news - see item 321 (6 August 2006) & 322

http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary_17.htm

Originally posted by heinzkat
Old news - see item 321 (6 August 2006) & 322

http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary_17.htm

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]

Well it does not lose but the point is the 2 pawn still unusually hold the three pawns. Still, such a waiting move is often critical in an end game.

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

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

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.

Originally posted by orion25
In Silman's complete endgame course we find:

[fen]6k1/8/6P1/6K1/ppp5/8/PPP5/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

Black to move wins:

[pgn]
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "6k1/8/6P1/6K1/ppp5/8/PPP5/8 w - - 0 1"]

1. Kf6 b3 2. axb3 c3 3. bxc3 a3 *
[/pgn]

White wins if he has the move, with b3, as well.

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?

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?