"I liked this one a lot because it's a position where Petrosian resigned in a blitz game, as WHITE!"
That is Dvoretsky's trick to make the reader remember the ideas better, right? Tragicomedies he calls it? We laugh, and make sure not to do the same kind of stupid thing in the future.
Poor Petrosian. All he would have been looking at
was something like this.
So resigned (we do not know the time of the clocks)
It reminds me of a game by Salo Flohr (I'm sure it was Flohr)
in the late 40's where he agreed a draw in a complex position.
The game was printed in CHESS.
Analysis showed a win and then a draw.
A win was found in one country only for it to bust in another.
Throughout the 50's this postion kept cropping up in Chess
claiming a win one month then someone somewhere found a resource.
Eventually Kotov analysed it to death....A draw.
When told that the game was definitely a draw Flohr shrugged his
shoulders and said;
"I knew that 15 years ago."
Originally posted by ParShooterOk, let's try again:
Ok, more opportunity for embarrassment:
Ra8+ .. Kxg7
Qa1+ .. Nf6
Nxf6 .. Rxf6
Rf1
Not sure if this wins but it breaks up the mate on h2 and puts white on the offensive.
Ra8+ .. Kxg7
Qa1+ .. Kh6
Qc1 (pinning the rook to the king)
.. g5 (breaking the pin)
Nxf4.
Now, if ..Qxf4, Qxf4 .. gxf4 and the mate threat is gone. This leaves White with 2 rooks, a bishop and four pawns vs. Black's bishop, knight and six pawns. That should be good enough for a White victory.
If, instead, gxf4 the White Q pin on the Black K is restored on the f4 pawn which keeps the Black Queen at bay for a move and the mate is postponed until Black can move his King.
If that happens, White maybe move Rf1 .. Bxf1, Qxf1. Then Black plays maybe Kh4 and White plays Qf3+ blocking the f4 pawn to boot and the crisis has passed.
