Today's exercise:
Here Black resigned! He explained that after 1...Ra4! comes 2.Ra8+ Kf7 3.a7 Ra1 4.h6! gxh6 5.Rh8 winning. However, Black missed something in this sequence, can you do better?
Solution to last puzzle:
Hegde - Palatnik
Calicut 1988
Incredibly, the position contains the saving resource 1...Bg7!! 2.Rh4 (2.Rxg7 stalemate!) Bd4! threatening 3...Bxa7 and the game is drawn. In fact the defence was found by endgame composer I. Vancura in 1924.
1 comment:
Instead of 4...gxh6 black plays 4...Kg6 which shields the King from the back rank check and also allows the King to (re)capture the h pawn.
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