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The history of the endgamestudy bv Yuri Averbakh {Stigter:Welcome,in particular Yuri Averbakh, who has been busy writing books about endgametheory.Already more than 40 years ago he started. And he now is mainly writing about, and studying,chesshistory, but also likes to discuss endgametheory and endgame composition.He will now present a talk about Chatrangand modemendgame.) Thank you, Gentleman, I staned !o be intercsted in endgameand endgamestudies just aboutffty yearsago.It is a big amount of time, of course. And you know that I wrote a number of books about endgames.But when I startedto be interestedin history of chess I could have the possibility to become acquainted with Chatrang; with the easternform of chess.And I discoveredthat alrcady in 9th and l0th century the analysesof the best Chatrang players were just about on the samelevel like in modemchess. It means that they were real grandmastersof Chatrang,and it wasjust 1000thousandyean ago. And becauseof this I started to look in theirendgamepositions, started to comparc their ideas with ideasof modernchess.And it happenedthat many ideas
which wereinventedor found in our century or in 19th century werc alreadyusedin Chatrang, a lot of time ago.And my intention is to show you someideas of Chafang. And I will compare Chatrangpositionswith modem chesspositions. But before I start I believeit's necessaryto explain something about Chatrang.Becausemodern chess is much more dynamic. Dynamic, because of strongQueen;becauseof strong Bishop.Becausea Queenat Ílat time was a very weak piece. Queen moved like piece rn checkers.Queenmovedjustone squareon diagonal. And Bishop also was not very strong.Bishop could play from let's say cl to e3, [or] to a3, [and]thento c5. But Bishophad one quality: it could jump over the pieces, like a Knight" It means that if you have some piece here [d2], your piece or your opponent's,he couldjump over it. This is important. But he capturedonly this piece[on thedestinationsquarel,and not like in checkersthis one [on the square it jumped overl. And this is the main difference. But also this game was rather slow. And in many positionsit was impossible to chec!Ínate. They had three ways of winnins.
One is just as now checkmate. Secondit was bare King. King could not be alone. If King is alone, game is lost. And third, stalematewas win for stronger side. This is also important to say. And now I start with the oldest endgamestudy.It was madeby RabrabKhata'i. RabrabKhata'i was living in middle Asia. in Turkistan. And he studied endgames of Rook against Knighl I want to show,because Rook and ltuight in Chatrang weÍe just the samelike they are todav.
1) l{hite to play and win. This is a very simple position: White to play and win. The first moveis easyto find. It is 1.8e3. Knight cur not go to this square [cl] because of check and Knight will be taken,cannotgo to this squaÍe[c3], Knight can be taken. There is only one: 1...àgl And now the aim of
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White is to catch this Knight. But how? It is interestingthat if you play 2.Éf4? than after 2...Éd4 this is a positionof mutual zugzwang.Becauseif you play Rook here [2.tre1],I give you check [2...àh3] and you cannot catch my Knight. It meansthatin this positionlafter 1...àgll, White should play 2.Èf5! The threatiscleu. White intendsto cometo 94, and than after Eel, Knight wiU be caught. And after, practically you haveno oÍherchoice,attack the Rook: t2...Éd41, and then after3.Èf4! gameis over. Maybe this is fte Íirst position in which mutual zugzwangwas shown.And if you know that the word 'Zugzwang' was introduced in chessby Max Lange, only in the end of l9th century. Maybe they didn't know the nameof this thing, but theyused it in this position. And just to show how far their senseof beautywas developed. I'll showyou two positionswith two different solutions. If,t's sayone position with two different solutions,one is just analysis,andthe secondis arcalpiece of arr
But after fifty years there was anothercl.ressplayer in the court of Khalif of Baghdad.His name was As-Suli. Maybe he was the greatestplayerof Charang. It is not maybe,becauseI provedit" but it will be anotherstory.And he was a really gÍeat man, becausehe was a prince.And asa prince he was taken to the court of Baghdad, when he was a play Whtte and win. 2) to young boy.Therche wasa poet and he was historian. He wrote This waspublishedby Al-'Adli, the history of the Abbyssis oneofthe bestplayersofthe 9th chaos. He collected verses of centuy. ln court of l(halifs of different poets of the islamic Baghdad. And Al-'Adli also epoque. And he also [was] a wrote a book about chess,but greatchessplayer.He wasrcally we don't lnow this book, it just may a man of the Renaissance, disappeared.But we know a I say,but in 9th-10thcentury.He numberof other manuscriptsin died in 946. But he was about which it is written that this posieighty, he was old. This means tion wasof A1-'Adli. Becauseof that he was born in the 9th cenit we can know how strong he tury. was and we can se€an example of his analysis. And now you will see how he playedin this position. He found You remember that the Queen solution in 4 moves. And the only can go one squareon the solutionis: He is trying to attack diagonal.The idea of this endthe black Queen immediately: ing is try oocatch black Queen. 1.Èf8. In this case Black has And in this cas€ it will be barc only one move: 1...Èf5. [f you King ir the situation that White attack[2.Ég8?], he attacks will win. And All'Adli gavehis Then he plays2.Èt7 solutionis suchway. He played t2...Ég61. and Black is in zugzwang.He 1.Èe6 Èf4 2.Èfd Èg4 3.Ég6 playsthis move [2...Ég4]. Then Ëh4. Now if you attack black he attacks next time t3.Èg81. Black attacks Queen [4.Èh7], Black has only one move: white Queent4...Éh5l and it is 3.-Èh5, and now after 4.Éh7 a draw. we havea very good example of White plays suchway: 4.Hg5+ zugzwang.Thisaareal Èg4 5.9f6 Èf4 andafteró.ÈÍ? endgamestudy! Very nice! there is nothing to do, because after let's say 6...Éf5 he plays Yes, now I tell you somestory. 7.Ue7 Èe5, he attacks:&Èg8 You know, when I was working Ée6 9.9f8 game is over. A with these positions of Chagood pieceof analysis.
4 trang,I discovercdone position of As-Suli, accompanied by somewords.It was saidin these words, in somemanuscript,as"Nobody Suli said: knows how to solve this position. If someone will show you the solution of it, it meanshe took it from myself'. And really there was no solution at all in the manuscript-It was written: "Solution is sodiffrcult andsolong thatwe cannot give you this solution". But we know that as-Suli was very proudofit Thenin a manuscript of llth or l2th c€ntury, you could find a solution,but it was wrong. It was wrong. I startedto woÍk on this solution. Not really becauseof asSuli, but becausein a book of Hooperand Whyld (by the way, Whyld is now my friend) they took this position,they said the first time publishedthis position and give you the solution.And they gave wrong solution. The same which was published in Chatrangbooksof 12thcentury.
You see it is just similar, the samepieces.Two Kingsandtwo Queens.And now I will show you the solutionwithoutexplanation: l.ÈM Oh, I will like to show that if you play immediately l.Èa2 and attackthe Queen,in this case he will attack your Queen[...Èc4] andyou cannot escape. I you go this way tz.Vd21,I attackyou [2...Sd3], andif you go thisway [3.9c1], I attackyou [3...Èc2j. It means it is draw.To win it is nessecary to go just the oppositeway.The solution is such: 1.Éb4 Édd 2.Èc4 Ée6. By the way, it is [a caseofl correspondingsquaÍes, which werc developed in the end of the l9th century in our chess.But they playedthis; they knew this. sincemorethan 1000 years ago. 3.Éd4 Èf6 4.Èd5 ÈO 5.Èe5 Èg7 6.Éeó Ég8 7.Éf6 Éh6. Until this posirion everything was ok, he could keep this corresponding squarcs.Now after this move t8.ÈC61,to equalize,he should And I giveyou this position,and haveone squarcmoÍ€ [h9]. But I will show you the soluÍon the boardis too short But since without any explanation: he has not such possibility he should play 8...Ég8. Then he plays ttris way [9.Ï*d2], Black playsthis way[9...*E], thenhe plays this move [10.l9c1] and now both kings aregoing back: 10...Èe7 11.Èf5 Èd6 12.Ée4 *c513.Èd3 ÉM 14.Éc2 Éa3 and afrer 15.Èbl Whire is winning. If you can show me modern position of such a way, I have never seeniL
3) \ryhlteto play and win.
It is interestingthatmr. Beasley, I wastold that heis a memberof
your association,he tried this solution on a computer,and he proved that I was right, but he found a number of some improvements.But anywaythesolution was ok. You know it's really a fantastic work of analysis. When you think aboutit wasinventedthousandyeaÍsago,it is remarkable. Now I will showyou someother positionsjust for you to understandhow they developedsome ideas. For instancethe idea of King in a comer.
4) Black to play and draw. You can make a Queen [1...g1Ë], but drenafter 2-Q'95 you will lose one of your Queensandforinstancelet'ssay you play this move Í2...V931.I take Check [3.Éxg3]. [3...Hh2+]. King here t4.Èf21. Check [4...Hg1+]. Now here ts.ÈRl. He tries to escape t5...Éh21 and after 6.4e3 he is attacking Queen. He must play this move [6.-Éhf]. I play 7.Ég3. Check [7...9h2+] And after 8.€f2 gameis all over. He is losing his Queen.
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{For people who have just arrived it is not modem chessit's Chatrangin which Queenwasa very weak pieceit moved more like a piece in checkers and Bishop was moving from the third squareonly but it was not a long rangepiece). Black to play and draw. So if youplayl...gl9 youarelosing. But it is only one way: 1...991 2.Èg3. And now it's a very interesting move. [2...Hf2+] Check! He gives up his Queen. What is idea? Because after 3.Éxf2 he plays 3...Éh2 and you cannot make zugzwang. lrt's sayhe plays4.ÉR. This a very important that dre King is now not in a corner t4...Èh31, and Black could survive.If you play Bishop here [5.9g5] he play this move [5...919]. Anyway now it's impossibleto win. {Mesman: Minor promotion was not allowed?) Sorry? No, no, no, only in Queen.You could promoteonlY in Queen.Really Firzanwas the namein the iranian languagefor Vizir in arabian. In modernlanguage,yes. {Mesman:But you canpromote asmany as you like?) Yes,asmanyasyou like. Really it was a lot of local rules. ln someregionsit was possibleto promote only when you lost your Queen.In that time there was no intemational organisa-
then I discovered that I was wrong. 4.-Èe3.Becauseof this pawn (h3), black King cannot go out from the corner.And becauseof it Black will lose.King here [4...Éh1]. 5.Èg3 grY 7.Èf2 9g1+ ó.4g5 th2+ 8.ÉR gh2 9.4e3 l9gl 10.È93 th2+ now 11.ÉÍ2 and gameis over. You should give your Queen and game is over. You remember that stalemate is a win for White.
5) White plays and win. What I wanted to show Íeally here. That they ànalysed.They immediately started aftÊr Chatrang was invented, they immediately started to analyse some ending position, and they developedit stepby step.You sawthe frstone, nowl showyousecond one.With aboutthesamepieces. You see now you have two pawns.But it happenedthat becauseof secondpawn the position is worse for Black. This is very interesting.Now White to play andWhite is winning. 1.4e3 9M+ check2.ÉO now check [2...'1491+].Bishop takes t3.Axgll. This is imporunt to know that he could do it He plays3...Èh2. Whenyou aÍeacquainted with modern chessit can be unusualfor you but rules are different. When I staÍted to analyseI mademany times the same mistakes. Sometimes I forgot that it is Chatrang,and not modernchessand thenI see that something is wrong, but
ó) White plays and win. And now the position which is connectedwith thisposition,but it looks on the frst sight completely different. White to play and win. You can seethat it is connectedwith the position we analysed. Now I play 1.Éf7. My idea is I like to take your pawn. You should go [r-.Éh7].I go thisway [2.Èf6]. He goes this way t2.-Èhó1. Now if I go to this pawn when I will be here [ÉR], he will be here [Éh3]. It was in previous position [HvdH: dia 4, aÏtnr move41.It is impossibleto win. For to win herc, it is nec€ssary to change the order of moves. And bccausethis square[g5] is
6 attacked by Bishop, he plays 3.Ée5. And after 3-.Èh5 he plays4.Éf5. This is alsoan idea which are usedin our chess.To give order of moves.t4...Éh4l Now it's ok to play this move t5.Èf41. This move [5...Èh3 ó.Èf31. It's only one move here t6...Èh2l and now I play 7.rëg4l. Now it is the samewhat we alreadyanalysed.Ifhe plays this move[7-.sbh1],I play King here [8.Èg3]. His pawn should queen [&-gl9], I play King herc[9.Èf3]. The samewhatwe already analysed.This is clear dewlopment of ideas.
{Mesman:In my opinion,if you find thesetype ofpositions,that are not conect it's a proof that they arecompositions.)
For to understandwhatwerethe rules.Black to play,Whitewins. Justto showyou how 0reyused this rule of bare King. Well of course 1...8xf4+ takes.2.Èg5 Well, just for a changeI'll tell En 3.Èh6 now he threatensto you thatI believethatcomposi give mat€. He gives check tion, problem, was bom in [3...Eh1+ 4.ghSJ. Now he is Europe. Becausea number of defending [a...trgl] and now people for instancein monas- White gives check [5.997+]. tries and universities, they Rook takes[5...trxg7]. And afcouldn't go to play openly with ter this move [6.14hg6],Black people.They werc intellectuals, [is] in Zugzwang. they were sitting in their rooms, It will be or stalemateor bare alone,they had no practiseofa King. This is typical Chatrang. game, but they could read arabian, they could seetheseposi- Now, what I am trying to show tions, and they started to invent tiat over the ninth. tenth cen{Mesman: When you staÍt the something, but they did not tury, theory of Chatrang was position,I think it is not possi- know some,let's say,peculiarity highly elaborated. Maybe rn ble, that thebishopcannotcome ofthe game.I believebecauseof modernchesswe can say about on that place from cl. It is an it. And I believe that problems it only in nineteenthcentury, incorrcct position.) [HvdH: compositionin Europewasborn during the prcsentationtheposi- between people of, let's say, tions wer€ shown 'upside- clerical occupation. down'1. {Benak: I have a question:can It is a reverseposition black is Black win after thereis no white white and white is black.This is pawn?) the point I understand.Your re- Yes,this is the bareKing rule. mark is very clever but the rcal position is such [HvdH: shows Now I would like to showyou a position in corrcctorder]. position of corrcsponding By the way this is a big differ- squaÍes. encebetweenFasternchessand 8) Black to play and draw. Western chess, in that time, when chesswas in Europethey This is the position. Black to started to make compositions play and Black makesa draw. but in manyof themBishophad Solution: f...Ég6, King is atan impossibleplaceto take.But tacking this pawn.He is attacknot in EasternChatrang.It never ing Bishop 12.Èe71.And now it happened.It means that the is very interestingthat here we composers of East werc real can show it is typical position players who knew everything with conesponding squares aboutthe game.Justoppositeto Í2..È971. For instanceI play the europeancomposers. this move t3.Éd71. You have only one answer.3-.Éh7. If I 7) Black to play, Whlte win.
7 play 4.Èd8 here.You haveonly one move. 4...Éh8. And by the way, this position, this same ideawas first time publishedby Neustadtlin 1890.It was sucha positionin modernchess.
9) White to play and draw. You can find this position in manyendgamebooksincluding my books.White makesa draw. Only onemove savesthe game, it's l.Èhl. Just the same r...& d2 2.*h2 ë e2 3.9 92.
manoeuvrewhich we haveseen in the game of Botwinnik-Najdorf. After move of rook ln such position Botwinnik t5...8b81, he plays 6.9e6 fdt played 71.hó. Because it's a 7.trc6 andnow gameisfrnished. threat to checknate in two It's funny you lnow, peopletold moves he should take tlat BotwinniÍ founda very fine [71...9xh6]. Then he played manoeuvre.But this manoeuvrc 72.e7.It is a threatto give check- was well known. Well known mate. He plays this move thousandyearsago.Thousand! 172...8a61.He plays 73.trf6. You haveto play 73...tra8.And Another example. It was an he plays 74.E'd6.And Najdorf endgarneof Selesniev. resigned.
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11) White to play and win. Solution is such: 1.9d7 Now let's sayhe playsthis [...fa8]. 2.Éf6. Now you undersrandif he gives check [2...tra6r] then 10) White to move. 3.tre6 and 4.trc6 and the same. Black has only one move I start with a real endgameof Now he cannot play Botwinnik-Najdorf, Moscow [2...trd8]. 3.Ee6 but he plays this move 1956.Botwinnik won brilliantly The threatis clear.He and it was reason,that he pro- t3.Eh7!1. should go with king t3...Èg81. manoeuvre, but ducedvery Íïne 4.trg7+ ÈA and now 5Jfe7. he neverknewthat this manoeuAnd now it will be iust the same
12) White to play and draw. I startwith this position.White makesa draw. l.Égó. Now we have a threat: 2.f7. You must play 1...9f4 and now I follow theBishop2.Èf5. He cannotescape.Yougohere[2.-Ah6], I eo here [3.É96]. You go here [3...êA],I go here[4.Èf7J.You go here [4-..Ê'd6 5.Èeó Af4 6.Èf51. It hasa name....? { Stigter:Merry-go-round} Yes,let us saymerry-go-round. And now an example from a very long time ago. I'm sorry,in orderto simplify I only showedthe Íinal of the Selesniev.It wasa bit complicated,
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% % uo** f4) White to play and draw. He playsQueen[1.e8Ë+], and when he takes [...ÈxeE], he plays 2.Èe6. And then he takes 13) Whlte to play and draw. which pawn, dependon which What happened here? Black side you are going. Or this one plays King here [1...Ëc2]. The or that one t2...Èd8 3.Èxd6; main idea is White is threaten- 2...ÉE 3.Èxf6l. And making a ing to take this pawn. Black draw. should anack Bishop. He play This move And now an example from this move t2.-ê.e31. t2...Éd3 3.9c5 Éc41. And if Abu'L-Faht Ahmad,he waslivyou play this move [4..Q'a3 ing in the l2th entury. In MidÉb31, we aremoving in just the dle-Asia.lnA Hístory of Chess, same merry-go-round [S.Acl we have one position of him. Éc21.And if you play this move And it is written: Abu'L-Faht I go this way hindustani. But Íeally in that [43e7]. t4-.Éd51. And if you attack time, for the Arabian world, pawn [5.É96], I attack your everythingeastvr'asin a region Bishop [5...Ée6]. And it is a of India. But it was alsoAfgandraw. But this idea was alreadv isun, and part of Middle-Asia. well known. For them all this regionwas India and that was why he got a Another exampleit is from an name Abu'L-Faht hindustani, endgameof Skujain 1950.This but really he wasnot hindustani is a curiousposition. he was a tadzjik, let's say an iraniantadzjik. Man of MiddleAsia.This is his oosition.
15) Black to play and wln. Black to play and makes a draws. Black plays here f ...Èe6. King takes here t2.Èf31. And now the same move, he does not take the pawn,but he plays2...Èf5!. No I'm sorry, I'm mistaken,Black to win! I'm sorry,Black to win. this is the point.The main problem is if you go this way [3.Èe3], I take this pawn [3...Èxe5]. If you go this way t3.Ég31, I take your pawn [3...Éxg5]. If you are playing such move t3.g6l, I take it [3...Éxe5].You play 4.g7.I go t4....8'd61.And after you queen, t5.g89l 5...Èf6 and 6...Èf7, I catchyour Queenand the game is over.Bare King. But anywan the manoeuvreis just the same. I don't take any of the two pawns. And now a positionof Mandler, well-known composer from Czechiawho wroteabook about Richard Réti and about his endgames.And he was a composer himself: this is his endgame,pawn-endgame:
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A very simple position. You know critical position will be herewhen black king here [f5], white King shouldbe herc [|3], black King will be here lg5l, white King shouldbe here [g3], but how to reachit? Only one move. l.Éb2 Éb6 2.Èc2 Èc6 3.Éd2 Èd6 4.Èe2 Èe6 5.Éf2 Èf6 6.É92 and now Í is clear that it's a draw. A very simple endgame,Not much to see.
Contrary to our chess,if Whit€ can take black pawn, he will win, a caseof bare King. Now it's also a question of corresponding squaÍes. Both sides must mano€uvrevery clear. If Black to play, it's only one move, which is making draw [HvdH: win]:1...Sa7. Andif it is White move,hewins only this move. 1.Èa2. It is the same moving. It's aboutthe same.
And now example of Bolstovich,a very long story.This is the positionwhich is in many manuscripts,arabian and iranian. Suchposition:
Yes,now I believeI showedyou some numbers of positions where you can se€ it's only a small number of examples, which I use to prove it, but I could show you much more. And maybe in August in Germany it will be [at] a celebration of Van der Linde one hundred years Anniversary.Maybe I'11 give a lectureabout the way of Van der Linde, becauseVan der Linde was one of the fust who startedsystematicallyto analyse positions of Chatrang.He was one of the pioneersof development of Chatrang.I believe he deservesthe merit he has as a chesshistorian.
It was win for Black. fint I told it was draw it was my mistake, but Íeally it wasa win for Black. {Benak: Are there games left fmm a thousandyearsago?) Yes, there are. But not very much games, becausemaybe they were too long and not so interesting.They left a lot of iaformation about openings; Ta'bi'a. It's a rule in old manuscripts,the first part was about Ta'bi'a. They had about 12 differcntopenings.Thenthey published a lot of positionsof such type.Not only endings,but also majority of middle game positions in which it was forced checkmate. For instance they had a specialposition.They had a name:'waterwheels'.In some positionfor to checkmateit was necessaryfor white King rwice to go around the table. ïïvice! Not one time, but twice ! And I believein our chess,at leastin endgame study, we have a number of positionswith only one roundof King, but not with twol But ofcourse,play wasmore or less forced. But anyway, they had a specialname:Mansuba's. But they were like combination of endgameand problem.This
10 is a difference between our Now I have a threat to take endgamesand their endgames. [3.Exh7+] and to attack your pawn. So you must take { Vander Heijden:Did theArabs [2...!xh4+], I take [3.Éxh4]. also recognize, let's say, Then you go this way [3...É971, themes?Did they mentionit, or I go this way [4.Ég5] and your describeit?) pawn is lost. It's bareKing, you Yes, they understand ir lt's know. King and pawn is a winclear,completelyclear.You can ning position. This is a differa see a lot of positions,for in- enc€ between Chatrang and sf,anc€: modernchess. (Marcus: I have a question about modernchess.In one of your books,you have a knight endinglike this:)
I just will tell you know about Borwinnik. Bonpinnik had idea to make computer thinking like a humanbeing is thinking. And oppositeto the brute force program,in which theyaretrying to use speedof computersto anaIyseasmanypositionsaspossi ble. This is a main advantageof machine. It makes it much quicker than any chessplayer. And he publishedone year before he died the analysis of one complicatedposition.And then Bediner,the americanBerliner, who is also doing such things, found it was mistake in his 19) White to play and wln. analysis. He said: 'But why should we be astonished?Be{ReubenFine givesthis kind of knight-ending;witi 4 against3 cause Botwinnik wanted to pawnsasa win. And you haveit makea computerwhich is playin your book too. But I'le read ing like a humanbeilg. For huthe analysisof two germanplay- man being it is typical to make just provedit en. And they say it's a draw. mistakes!.And he Haveyou seenthis analysis,and is rue!'. Nobody, from beginner to the do you agrce?) World Champion can escape No, not yel You know, may I [from] making mistakes.We all say. In my books I have more arehumans. than 3000positions.Ofcourse I did not analyseall 3000 posi- You rememberwhercit [dia 19] tions very deeply. I analysed was published?{Well, it was in only what was interesting for Basic ChessEndingsby Reuben myselfor whenit wasnecessary Fine) I know. {Oh yes,it was a to check. But sometimes I book from Budde and Niko-
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lE) White to play and win. You knoq when you are looking in differcnt manuscripts, you can seehcnr they developed it stepby step.Developedsonre theme. You can s€e how they complicated,you know. For instancethis position of Al'Adli, after a position of Al'Suli, which was made maybe frfty years later. It's a big difference. It's much morc complicated. The same pieces and a lot of analysis.This is a simple position. After Black takes the Knight They did not rake tf-Ixh|. [2.fxh7+?], becauscit's a draw. But after 2Èg4!! gameis over. {?: Why the gameis over?} BecauseI will take your pawn. AfEr I play this move [2.Èga1.
trustedthe authorsof this positions.And may I saythat 107ois a minimum of mistakeyou can discover in any chessbook. It meansthatI'm not a God; I cannot analysewithout mistakes.I lnow a number of mistakesin my books,and when I publish next book I will try to improve of coune. I'll just make a note what to do.
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ll laizukl. Aha, Buddeand Nikolaizuk. I know. Ok, I check.It's possible[HvdH: in fact it rs: Vladimir Budde& JerzyKonikovtski: Modernc Endspiebechnik, Hollfeld 1985;page139) {Mees: How does it come that only in the westem chess we have compositions?And when we look atchinesechessorjapanesechess,theyhaveno compositionsat all. ) Sorry, I am not an expert in chinesechess.But this man [?] is an exp€rt in Shogi, japanese chess.And maybe he can answer.{?: therearemanycompositions!). I believe that they should have, becauseif they tried to analysesomeposition, they could cÍeate some endgamesand someproblems. {?: ln your Amsterdamspeech you told that you did find a manuscript. Can you tell us where and in what way?). Really, I discovered three unknown manuscripts.And I published ttuee of them in russian. Maybe it is better I wil try !o publish these manuscripts in gemurnor in englishtoo.One of them I found in Kazan. Kazan was old capital of Tartaria.And Érey have a library. The matn problemwith sucha manuscript that is it not only óout chess. Becausein time of big troubles, they wantedto write everything in one volume. Because one tinre they were in big hurry, it was a difhcult situation.It was Dzingis Khan,a lot of war.A lot of manuscriptswas burned.Becauseofi! theyput somediffer-
ent,completelydifferentarticles in onevolume.And Idiscovered a volume of thirteen different articles.For instance,it was an articleof [Agadzijan?]who was a very famous musician. Also sometling I can't remember about what. And insideit was a manuscript: Ethics of chess. Without diagrams.But it was a philosophicalwork. This autior wanted to know what game of chessis. And he was rying ï,o understandit from a philosophi cal point of view. He immediately startedto compare chess and backgammon, the game wiÍr dice. He said that chess and backgammon are gamesfor everybody.But they represent different religious ways. Backgammon,with dice, it is gameof determinationand chance; a grme of fate. And chessis a game of freedom of will. This is important, freedom of will. Becausejust in that time arabial world was acquainted with the work of grcat philosophers of Greece, like Aristoteles, like Plato. Their logic. former logic was developed. And they immediately startedto use this new method to analyse many things,including gameof chess.And this is I believethe frst work in chesstrying to understandchessfrom philosophical point of view. That's one óing. Second,you know three times I visistedIndia- And practically I went through India. I visited Delhi, Bombay, Hyderabad and Madras. Arisa. Cochin. It meansI visiteda lot ofplaces.In Hyderabadthey had a museumof Sa-
lar Jung.You know for islam of Hyderabad;he waslike khalif in arabiantime,becausehewasthe religiousleaderof all muslims in India- And he an extremely rich man. And his prime mimster was also a very rich man. And he was the grcat collector. Really it was three [generationsl. Itwas SalarJungthefusq SalarJungthe secondand Salar Jung the third. Now they have Salar Jung museum in Hyderabad [HvdH: Mir Yasaf Khan SalarJung the 3rd, Prime Minister of Nizam founded the museum]. And you can find there the bestcollectionoftin soldiers in the world, for instance.Some peoplewent m Hyderabadjust to look for the uniform and colors which the different soldiers had a long time ago.When tiey weretrying to shootsomefilms, they neededto lnow what was the real uniform. But this man collectedpracticallyeverything. Warches, sticks, umbrella's. And also he collected manuscriptsandchesssets.About the chesssetsI cannot say theY are so original, but his numerous manuscripts, there arc about 7000. In arabian,in iranian, and in some languagesof India I discovered small manuscript, completely unlnown. I asked my friend in Hyderabadto copy it And thenwhen I got it I publishedir And Idiscovercdavery good saying from this manuscript which I usedin my lecture 'I in Amsterdam: cannot understand a King who cannot play chess.How will herule his kingdom?' I be[eve it is a very nice saying.
12 The thindone I found in Leningrad. Because I was writing about my discoveries,I got a letter from l.eningrad. We have therea very good library of oriental books. And a man from this library told me, you know, it was not nec€ssaryto go to lndia to look for unknown manuscript,we haveonein [rningrad. I immediately went to l-rningrad. It was not very big. Everything was mixed. It was the samestyle.It wasalsoabout 20 different articles in one manuscripl But one was about chess.The manuscripthad the name: Sea of Reason,..Sea of Sense.It waswharhe saidabout chess.And he gavea numberof positionsin openings,a number of positions from endgames. And after I studied ir I found that this manuscript very close connectedwith a turkish manuscript which wasmadein 1503, I believe,in Constantinopel. But anyway, these are the three manuscrips I discoveredin my life, let's say. {?: in arabianlanguage?} In arabianand in iranian too. Of course,I'm sorry,I am not able to speakiranian and arabian,but I have friends. One of them grandmaster[?], a very wellknown man in our counEry.He died now. Who was expert in arabian language, who produceda russian-arabian dictionary. He was also interested in chess. By the way he played Aljechin many times ago. And he helped me to work on this manuscript He translatedit and I made commentary and I ana-
lysedposiÍons. You understand seventimes and the score was it is possibleto work. The same 7-0. And it was really diffrcult waswith theiranianmanuscript. position for Keres.Becausein his mind he thought if he suc{?: You have been also in the ceeded to win this game, he dutch EastIndies?) should be hrst And he lost.. It Yes, I have been in Curacao.I was tournarnentof Petrosjan. was the chief of our delegation You know it was no real leader, when we went to Curacao in not like Tal, or like Fischer,who 1962.My team was playing in could win gameaftergame.And candidates toumÍImenl My Petrosjanwasplaying very quiet t€amwasPetrosjan,Keres,Gel- andfinally succeededto win this ler, Kortchnoi,and Tal. But Tal tournírment.And then on our wasvery ill, becausejust before way back we played a match Curacaohe had a kidney opera- againsta dutch teamhere. tion, and a kidney was taken from him. It was clear that he { ?: You mentionedthat in Chacannotchallenge.Really he be- trang they had openings,but in cameill and shouldleaveat the fact they had opening posilast part of the toumament,be- tions?) causeof big pains in kidneys. They had about twelve openBut toumament was won by ings. It was Ta'bi'a. You know Petrosjan. And Fischer was in Chatrang,piecesare slowly main challenger.But he also moving. It wasnot a questionof started very bad. He lost first exact moves,like in our open' two games in the toumament. ings, like King-gambit, or And hewantedtocatch [up], but something, when the play he could not succeed.And be- started on the 5th or 6Ír move. cause in such situation, when Really, their game started after Tal is in bad form, and Fischer Íifteen, maybe twenty moves. is in bad form, main fight was Before they just made some, between our people. Between let's say,forress. And they had Kercs,PetrosjanandGeller.But different namesfor such posithen,I believe,thatKeresshould tions. And they use now this be the finr But he was oldest nameTa'bi'a- It meansthat cerAnd whenyou play two months, tain position of certain openit was28 games,I believe.In the ings. end we wasreally tired from this competition. And what really {?: In modern chess,you now happened with him. He was seeoften that after lOth. or l5th leadingin this toumamenl But move they find somethingnew in the last part of this tourna- Should we also not start with ment, he should play Benko. different opening positions to Benko was not on the top, was makeit morc intercsting?) one of the out-siden in this You talk about modern chess? fight And beforc Keres won 7 {yes}. Maybe, you know, now gamesagainsthim. The played in chesswe havea lot ofknowl-
13 edge. I once received a letter from a man, he told me he is a secondcategory player. He is playing every time counter-attack of Marshall. And on the 28th move he found somenew move.And I wasthinking: if he was a secondcategoryPlaYer,I believe it is not necessarYto know so deep.More for grandmasters,for PeoPlewho like to go to be a world chamPion,but not for player who just likes to enjoychess.And by the way,it is a mistakeof many authorsof
chessbooks.They try to give as aspossiblein muchinformaLion handbooks.But I havejust oPposite view. I believefor amateurs it is necessaryto give a minimum of knowledge for to get a maximum of enjoYment. This is the right way to writ€ a book. [HvdH: and here the tapeends. Justone or two additionalquestions were asked.And Gijs van Breukelencamewith a surprisine finish. He showed his un-
publishedrabid Rook study,in which the white King has to go around the board five times to accomplishthe win, therebyreferring to thediscussionjust before diagram 18. Maybe this positionwill trepublishedin the next issueof EBUR. Naturally, Jurgen Stigter complimented grandmaster Averbakh with his lecture, and gave him a few books on endgame studiestlrat were recently publishedby ARVES.I
(Un)solYedmysteries door Harm Benak J. Foltys & J. Genttner CeskoslovenskySach, L935
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4.exd7 wint) 4.989 wint Of l.à,d7l 6xd7 2.g7 à,f6 3.efr6 *f7 4.Íxe7 wint. Of l.àd7! àd3+ 2.Éf1 àxe5 3.àxe5 Èxe5 4.g7 winl Of l.àd7! àe4 2.àE+ Èxe5 3.g7 àfó 4.àd7+ en wint ook. Interessantis dat Alain Palierin de aantekeningenvan l,amare een studie vondt, die hier zeer veel op lijkt, en door dezelfde componistenis gemaakt:
J. Foltys & J. Genttner CeskoslovensIE Sach' 5/1933
Wit speelten winl l.àb6! cxM 2.cxd6!eneenvan de twee witte vrijpionnen looPt door. Een andere variant: 1.àb6! àxb6 2.cxb6 cxbó 3.Èa3! en de wiue koning stopt
t4 in ajn eendede drie zwartevnjpionnen, bijv. 3...d5 4.Èb4 b5 5.Èc5! En tot slotde variantdie ook in studie 29 voorkomr 1.àb6! àe72.h7Èg73.f6+! en wit wint Alain Palier heeft studie 30 in het archief van Lamare geprobeerdop te zoeken,maar daar bleek deze niet in voor te komen Terecht,want Z. Weger toonde aan dat deze studie incorrectis! lL Lommer Couier de Leysin, 1933
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dit dan ook voor ogen stond, A. Perna maarhelaaskloppener eenpaar Casopis#349,1923 dingen niet Om te beginnen hoeft wit geen3.e8E te spelen, maar kan 3.e8l9 ook. Hij moet dan alleenna 3..f19+ 4.Exfl Eel+ wel 4.9xel spelen,en na 3...8a5+ 4.9xa5 flS+ dus 5.t9e1! En wat gebeurt er na l.b6? Dit lijkt mij eendual op te leveren,bijv. l.b6 Exb6 2.c89 Eb5 (2...trb8 3.4b7 ExbT 4.9d4 en 1-0) 3.d84 trxe5 4.e88 en wit wint ook. Nog ergeris datde studievrijwel direct 31) Wlt speelten wint. weerlegt kan worden door 1.c89! want na l...Exb5 Nr. 32) lijkt me iets lastiger, (1...8a7+ 2.tUa6wint)2.9xc4+ maarmoette doenzijn. Éxc4 3.d89 heeft zwart geen enkelepatkansmeer.Dat is dus J. Hasek ergjammer,maardeeerstevariCasopis#347, 1923 ant is volgensmij mooi genoeg om er eenseenreparatie-poging tegen aÍrn te gooien. Wie probeert het?
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Dan nu de twee nieuwe mysteries.Nr. 3l lijkt me niet al te moeilijk. 30) Wlt speelt en wint. Waar je in deze studie voor op moet passen, is dat zwart zrchzrlf niet pat Ea t zÊtten, bijv. via l.c8à fxb5 2.d89? fó+! 3.9xa5 flt{+ 4.Exfl cl9+ S.fxcl pal Met dit in het achterhoofdis het niet moeilijk om de volgende,prachtige,variant boven water te krijgen: 1.c8àl Exb5 2.d8.Q'! Exe5 3.e8E! en winL Een prachtige drievoudigeminorpromotie,en ik gaer vanuitdatde componist
32) Wit speelten wlnL
Veel succesbij het oplossenvan deze studies,en vergeetniet de oplossingvoor I septemberop te stulennaar: Harm Benak Rozemarijntuin 67 2353 PC Leiderdorp.
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Blij met Balemans door Hans Buiis & Rolf Hendriks In zijn boek De compositie van het eindspel geeft Teun Balemanseen studie (zijn nr. 35), die is gebaseerdop een intrigerendestudie van Zinu. De bewuste studie is voor onze trouwe lezers geen onbekende,want ze stond centraal in de artikelen van Balemansen onszelf die in de afgelopen nummers van EBUR zrjn verschenen.Bij het voorbereidenvan onze bijdragenhebbenwe ook Balemans'nr. 35 onderzocht, en daarbij een aantal inieressante ontdekkingen gedaan. De stelline: verovert h6, in het tweedegeval wint gf6. Als de pion nog op b7 staat,wordt het wel remise,mits de zÉ naar 91 gaat.Ook deze stelling is eendiagramwaard:
ZwaÍ lijkt hier twee pionzetten over te hebben, maar schijn bedriegl Bovendien moet zwart rekening houden met 95 hg5, fg5 fg5, waarnawit een vrijpion heeft. Kan wit vervolgen met Èg4, dan moet zwart met Èf6 zijn pion dekken. Hoe staat wit ervoor, als alle pionzettenop zijn? Aldus: (zie diagramrechtsboven) In deze stelling wint wit altijd, doordat zwart "geen verweer meer heeft tegen een witte koningsopmarsnaar h5 gevolgd door 95" (Balemans).Na deze zetten moet de zÉ immers naar g7 of h7, om h6 te dekken.In het eerstegeval speeltwit 96 en
In de variant die Balemansgeeft om aan te tonen dat wit niet wint, laat hij enkele interessanteopties buiten beschouwing. Als de koningenop 94 en h7 staan,kan wit een serieuze winstpoging wagen met 1.Èf3. Op een zet van de zÉ volgt 2.gh6 en 3.Ée4 met winst voor wit; evenmin verstandigis h5, want na 2.96+ en 3.Ég3 is de val van h5 onvermijdelijk. Blijft over r...hgS! 2.ÍgS ÍgS 3.Ég4 Éh6 4.Í6 (Zwut heeft nog een tempo over, dus niet 4.Ég3
16 Ég7 5.€13 Éf6 6.É94 b6) 4...É96 5.fl/ Éxf7 6.Éxg5 Ée6! en na 7.É96 bó, 7.Éf4 Sf6 of 7.Ég4 Éf6 wint wit in elk geval niet. Een even opmerkelijk moment doet zich voor met de koningenop h4 en g8; ook hier kan wit een gevaarlijke winstpoging ondememen:1.gh6 Éh7 2.Éh5 b6 (anders 3.É'g6) 3.Éha Èxh6 4.Éga Ès7 5.ÉR Éf7 6.Ée4 Ée7 7.Éd5 Éd7 en de zS is op tijd, doordat d5 en d7 nu korresponderen,in plaatsvan e4 en dó. In de variant die Balemansge€ft,wordt het terugdringen van de zÉ door in de positie wÉg4:zÉh6 niet aanzgt te iljn, ten onrechtegenegeerd. Bij hem krijgt zwart de kans om ÉR te beantwoordenmet Éh5, waarnade zÉ de witte f-pionnenkan aanvallen.In dezestelIing konesponderenh5:g7 en g4:h7. Als dit allemaal klopt (welke kritische lezer verbeterthet witte spel?) kunnen we op zoek naar korresponderendevelden in de stelling na a4. De zet b6 verliest dan bijna geruisloos, en kan daardoor geen invloed hebben.AIs de wÉ op h5 komt, wordt h6 aangevallen.De zÉ zal dus moeten dekken. Met de zÉ op g7 speelt wit 95 en zwart verliest (zetdwang!).Dus blijft h7 over. Als de É op e4 sraar,moer de zÉ naardó; c6 komt niet in aanmerking wegens ÉR Éd7 en na de afruil op 95 volgt Ég4 en Éxg5. Dan grenstR aan e4, zodat R wel moet korresponderenmet e7. De vraag is nu, of 93 korrespondeertmet E en fl7, of uitsluitend mer Í7. Als wit wint, moet dat komen door 95. Als zwart dan (met de koningenop 93 en tX) slaatop 95, verliest hij inderdaad.Na Ég7! heeft wit echter niet beter dan de hierboven geschetstevarianten,die hoogstensremise opleveren. De velden f8 en f7 zijn dus gelijkwaardig.In destudievan Zinar waren e2-f2 en d8-e8 gelijkwaardig. Dat geldt hier uiteraard nier bij Zinar hoefde de zÉ niet verder dan g7, hier moet hij op h7 komen.
Dit resuluat kunnen we intekenen in de slelling van Balemans(na a4):
De tabelbevestigtde analyse.Het formuleren van de voorwaardenviel overigensniet mee. Dat probleem wordt nog groter, als we voorwaardenwillen opstellenvoor de stelling die aan a4 voorafgaat. De voorwaardemet betrekkingtot h5:97 geldt niet meer, want zwart kan zich eruit redden met a4. AIs de wÉ dan probeert terug te gaan verliest hij onderweg de korrespondentie. Maar er komen ook nieuwe voorwaarden bij: wÉb3 winf zodat zwatrt aon zEÍ een t€mpo moet verliezen als de wÉ op c2 staat. In alle posities waarin wit aan zeÍ volgensde eerstetabel wint met de wÉ op c2, komt dus .l te staan.In de resterende posities waarin wit aan zat volgens de eerstetabel niet wint (0.), zetten we nu .0 (zwaÍt aanzet verhindertdat wit wint door a4). Om te laten zien wat voor wonderlijks er dan gebeurt,lalen we de lijnen uit het vorige diagram slaan, maar we vullen de cijfers in aan de hand van de zetdwangposities in de tweedetabel:
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We zullen auteursoplossingen tabel eens naast elkaar leggen, De koningen staan op cl en d8 (40). De eerste zet is uiteraard 1.Éd2 (03). Zwart probeertnu de wÈ naar een (aanstonds)korresponderendveld te lokken, 1...Éd7 (30), maar wit trapt er niet in, 2.Éd3 (02) Èd6 (20) 3.Èc2! (ll) a4 (10.0, overgangnaar de eerstetabel). Dit was de eerste fase, het afdwingen van a4, net als in de stelling van Znar. Wit moet nu zorgvuldig te werk gaan om de korrespondentie te veroveren: 4.Éd2 (89) Éc7 (90) s.Èd3 (08) Éc6 (80) 6.ëe2 (57) '10) 7.Éf2 (45) Ée7 Éd6 (67, Èd7 geeft (50) 8.€R (04). Nu staatzwart voor een keuze:op Éd7 is 95 het eenonaangename voudigst, na Èfl volgt Ée4, dus we houden het op 8...b6. Maar nu is zwart het reddendetempokwijt 9.Ég3 ÉfZ 10.Éh4 È97 11.Éh5 Éh7 12.95 Ég7 13.gden wit winl Aldus de oplossing van de auteur. Maar in deze studie schuilt een andere, die misschien nog wel meer recht doet aan de pionnenstruktuw.De tabel schenktons een opmerkelijk langevariant met de koningen op h5 en h7 (l): Zwart aan zet maalÍ remise door a4, maar wit aan zet wint: 1.Éh4! Ég7 (of Ég8) 2.Ég3! Éf7 (of Èf8) 3.ÉR! Ée7 4.Ée3! Éd6 5.Éd2! Èd7 ó.Èd3! en Éc2 zal volgen; in verband met het veÍvolg is de beste keus Éd6, en dan 1.cbc2]! a4 8.Éd2! Ëc7 9.Éd3! Éc{ 10.Ée2! Éd7 11.Ée3! Èd6 12.&4! en nu a) 12..Éc6 13.É8 (of g5) Èd7 14.Ée3 Èe7 15.Èh4 ÉÍ7 ró.Éh5
Ég7 (we zijn weer thuis) 17.95! (nu lukt het wel) 17...hg518.fg5 fg5 19.Kxg5 Kr, en het meest in stijl is nu 20.f6 Éf8 2r.&g6 Èg8 22.f7+ ÈÍ8 23.Éf6 b5 A.cbS! (Ée6? bc4 wint ook. maar lastiger) ?A..,c4 25.*6, dan wel b) 12...M 13.ÈR Ée7 14.É93 Én 15.Èh4 ÉgE 16.Éh5 *g7 r7.g5 Éh7 r8.gf6 enzovoort,dan wel c) 12...Éd7 13.Éd5 b6 14.Ée4 en de wÉ gaatweer winnendterug naar zijn vertrekpunt. Het begin (de voorbereidingvan Éc2) is natuurlijk vooral inteÍessantom wat er niet gebeurc de wÉ moet naar de c-lijn en dan weer terug naar de d-lijn. Dat moet Z toch simpel kunnen verhinderendoor de goede plaats op die d-lijn in te nemen?Toch is dat niet zo, rvant de wÈK gaat via R en d3: die velden gÍenzenaan e4, en op €e4 moet Éd6 kunnen volgen. Tn raak de zë op de zesderij, waar hij verliest, terwijl de achtsterij hem had gered. De eerste indruk was die van een grote overeenkomstmet het voorbeeld van Zinar. Maar uiteindelijk blijkt alleen het uitlokken van a4 te zijn overgenomen, lerwijl de studie is verrijkt met het uitlokken van b6, alles op grond van scherpe varianten. Met name de manier waarop een voortijdig 95 wordt afgestraft is instruktief. Voeg daar de verandering van korrespondentie ten opzichte van Zinar, en de ongelooflijke nieuwe koningspositie aan toe, en u begrijpt waaromwe blij zijn metdezc Ba.lemans!
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Tabel bij Balemans nr. 35, voor a4 Voorwaarden: wÈó wint; wÉxh6 wintExtra: w$b3 wint; als de wS op c2 staat, moet z''|aÍt aÀazet a4 spelen; in alle posities waarin wit aan zet volgens de eerste tabel met Éc2 wint, komt dus . I te staan. In alle posities waarin wit aan zet in de eente tabl niet wint (0.), krijgt zwart de markering .0 (met a4 als de zet die Íemise maakt).
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Van Reek's Chessmen K. HusiákandE. Vlasiák,CzechRepublic Van Reek's Chessmcnin the Endganrc .ltudy published in 1992is a very interestingbook with a nice selection of top ranked pieces. Nevertheless, such a "high society" caanot suwive a closerlook of anexperiencedanalysLHere are some our discoveries.
1.9c2+ Èd4! 3.Ècl àxg6 5.àxb4 àf4 7.L4 an? 9.Àc2matc.
BazlovJ NakhodinskyRabochy 1972, lst Prize
after 7.8e2
But 7..àc5? looks like suicide, ' % " % % why not 7...àf2l; for example
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% % % %" % %r% % u2) % .ffi, % % s Whiíewlns l.àf4+ ÈR 2.àxg6àf5 3.trfó àd3+ 4.Èc3Ée4 5.Ee6+Èd5 ó.treEàd6 7.9e2 Q\5 8.àe7 mat€.
8.àe7+ Éc5 9.Ee5+ Èb6. Of course,accordingto Stiller the Eàxàà constellarion wins probably regulary, but in that case the whole study ends m move2. Bron,V New Stalesman1964,lst-2nd Prize
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2.Èxd2 Ab4+ 4.àc6+ Ée3 6.àf5+ Éxe2 8.àg3+ Èe3
' % % % %% % "% % % 'ffi% %^% %Affi. Tr%'"m,%%% after7.9e4
But 7...ÈO! is draw, for example 8.9xht àg2ll 9.àd3+Égl 10.àg3 €h2. RusinekJ PeckoverJubilee,1977,lst Prize
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Whitc wins Draw
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l.àf2+ Ègl 2.àh3+ Én 3.d4 Axd4 4.4d6 fxd6 S.bEB Ae5+ó.àf4 Eg6+ 7.Éh3 Eh6+ 8.Èg39xb8:.
Korolkov.V Sfta*zat) v SSIR 1936
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Cook 4.4c1! Ae5+ (4...8b8 5.Èxh2) 5.9f4 9xf4+ 6.àxf4 Égl (6...8h87.àh3àR 8.b88 Exb89.ÈxB) 8.àh3+. Nadareishvili,G Avantgardi 1957, lst Prize
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%e% ,rrm % | %*% White wins 1.8d7+ Éc4 2.trO+ Éb3 3.8c3+ Éxa2 4.8a3+ Èbl 5.b7Ee86.8a8Exa87.bxa89 Èa2 E.AdS+961 9.óq1 b4 10.9b3 bxa3 11.Èd2 ^2 12.!.c2mate,
PetrovrD Shakhmaty 1970,lst Prize
Whitewlns
Draw
1.àfó+ ëgI 2.Eg8+ Éhó 3.EhE+ Èg7 4.Exb2 Ed4+ 5.Éc2ÈxhE6.Èc3Ea47.892 Ea3+E.Èd4tra4+9.Èe3Ea3+ But after f...Ed6! 2.e8H Edl 10.Ée4 Ea4+ 11.Éf5 traS+ 3.9b5 trd5! 4.9xc5 trxc5 12.€96 Ea2 13.Eg5 Ea5 5.Ag fh5 mate- Black wins. 14.4d5 ÈgE 15.Ee5 Èfll l6.Ef5+ Ée8 17.àc7++-.
1.9f1 Ac4 2.bxc4àf83.ed8A Eb6 4.b89 Exb8 5.9hd EhB 6.A3' Eh7 7.Afg7 draw.
Gulyaev,A Shakmatyv S^sSÀ1947,3rd Prlze
The'databasecompositions' from prc-computer era(or created today without computer) are mostlyunsound.The best defence14...8a7!needsstill l8 movesto win.
É Andwhynot2.Éc2!,for exampleEe2+3.4d2bl9+ 4.Éxbl g - e - )t . D / I
à Whitewlns
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l.àcíëxcf2.a1 Èb73.a89+ ÈxaE 4.Èc7 b2 5.Eh3 àg3 ó.trxg3 blà 7.Èbd Ab3 after 14.. Ég8 8.8h3+Dual7.8g5,computer tested. In addition,therc are duals,for example15.Ef5Ea6+ 16.àf6+
22 Èf8 17.tre5 Ea8 (17...treó l8.gd5 Ec6 19.trd7 trc7 18.àd7+ Èg8 20.àh1+) 19.8e7or even 15.àe7+ Èh8 16.4f5. DorogovrY Trtlsk ifi for Schach 1976, lst Prize
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A better try for black seemsto be 1...9h4+! A) 2.Èd2 e3+ 3.Èe2 th5+ 4.Èxe3 He5+ 5.ÈR 9f5+ 6.Èe3 9g5+ 7.Éd4 9f6+ 8.Ée3 9f2+ 9.*e4 9d4+ 10.ÈR AxgT with Black chances. B) 2.ëe2 exd3+3.Éxd3 996+ 4.Èe3 9g5+ 5.Èd4 (5.Èe2 Hxc2+) 5...9f6+ c) 2.Èdl Ag5 3.g8Ë (3.da t9a4 4.\f7 9xc4) 3...8h5+ 4.Ée1 Hh4+ 5.Èd1 Wg4+ 6.Éel Ëg3+ 7.Édl Ëf3+ 8.Éel 9fl mate. Van ReekJ The Problenist 1988
Draw l.{ exd3 2.gE9+ Ag5+ 3.9xe8 dxc2 4.We3+!!9xe3 5.8{+ ÉM 6.8h7+ Èg3 7.E,97+*h4 &Eh7+ Èg5 9.trg7+ Èhó 10.trh7+ Èg5 l1.Eg7+ Èf4 12.trÍ7+ Èe5 13.trf5+Ée4 l4.Ad3+ Èxd3 15.8d5+.Q.d4 1ó.Exd4+ *xd4 17.ëd2:
1.9c8+ Èf6 2.àexc2 bxc2 3.àxc2 EcS 4.4f5 dxc2 5.f4 trc8+ 6.9xc8 clH 7.8h6 mate. Accordingto author1.àxb3? is badfor 1...d2.But after2.8e7+ White wins, for example: A) 2...Èd6 3.àxd2 trg8+ 4.Èxg8cl9 5.8e2Éc7 6.9R; B) 2...Èf53.àd4+ È 96 4. 9e4+ Èh5 5.Eh7+ Èg4 6.9f3+ Éf4 7.àd3 mate; C) 2...Èf6 3.trfl/+Èe6 4.4c8+ Èd5 5.trd7+. Probably l...clB! 2.àxc1 d2 can savethis study. Testing the correctness of endgamestudiesis sometimesa very diffrcult task. It is quite possiblethat we are wrong in some cases.Of course,if our contribution leads to a discussion,thanits purposeis fulÍïlled.
White wins
Lezersschrijven 'Wat betreft EBUR hier6...àd2 7.Exd2M 8.àó+ Z.Weger: lll997: De door F.JosePh Éa4 9.Eb2 a5 10.àd4; 6...b4 voorgestelde correctie varl 7.àc6+ Èa4 8.Exbl a5 9.àd4; Bondarenko'sstudie faalt m.L of 4...e55.d6 hlD ó.bEà àe7 op dedual8.Èf 1.In studienr.28 7.dxe7Ëh6 8.e8V. van E.Holm (in Unsolved Jiirgen Fleck: The HoIm Mysteries)is 3.AE+ een dual. studies(EBURi97 p.l6) arestill Studienr.3l vanA.P.Kuznetsov a mysteryto me.#28 hasa very in Pawn Prcmotion heeft naar ugly dual: (1.f7 trxf7 2.9e7 Eh7) 3.9f8+! (ouch!), while me voorkomtook eendual: 4.ÈÀ3! hlD 5.b8à àe5 6.fxe5 #28ais only slightly beuer:The gh6 7.dó, of 4...b2 5.b8à flashy ó.9d8 is unnecessary, as blP+ ó.Éxa2 àxc3+ 7.Èb3; of the banal 6.Èxb2 wins easily.
The main problemfor Black is, that thereis no way to approach the b-pawn with his king: ó...Éh5 (6...e47. 9''hafollowed by Ag3, whenBlack is reduced to toral passivity) 7.4f6 Ég4 (7...g4 8.4e5 is similar to 6...c4) 8.9d4 followed by 93a7 with aneasywin. (8.Éa3 is possible,too: 8...Èf4 9.Èa4 94 l0.Ad4 Èg3 11.Éxa5Èh2 12.Èa6 93 13.9e5 Èh3 14.4e4).
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DE TOEGEVOEGDEVELDBN VOORBIJ (epiloog) door TeunBalemans In hun bijdrage in het vorige nummer van ons blad (maart '97) reageerdende theoretici Buijs en Hendriksop twe€ eeÍdere artitelen van mijn hand. Omdatik het op eenpaarpunten oneensben met hun kritiek lijkt het me dienstig om enige kanttekeningen te plaatsen.Aan het slot van dit artilel ga ik in het kort in op de voors en en tegens van de door Buijs en Hendriksgepropageerde Clarktabellen.
witte koning op hl staat,op E of f7 staan(zijn nr. 5). Maar wit Íun zet komt ook niet verderals de zwartekoning op c8, d8, e8, g8, c7, d7, e7, g7, c6 oí d6 staat." Dit is onjuist. Als de witte koning op hl staatdan is het pleit voor zwart beslechtals zijn koning op c8, c7, e7, c6 of d6 resideert. De zazk zou natuurlijk anden liggen als de zwarte pion reeds naar a4 was gespeeld,maar dat is niet het geval. Ik vind de ingetekende viertjes en vijtes uiteraaÍd (!) I. In mijn eersteartikel (septem- niet misleidend.Indiende witte '96) komt ber het volgendedia- konirg op hl staat dan houdt grÍrm voor. zwart remise op de velden d7, f7, d8, e8,enf8. Indien men dit Zinar 1983 wil visualiserendan kan men gebruik makenvan een paginagroot diagram waarbij men de de remiserendetegenveldenintekent op veld hl. Indien men genoegenneemtmeteenkleiner diagram met minder informatie (zoalsin het onderhavigegeval) dan dient men er vanuit te gaan dat de lezer met e€n schakersoog kijkt en een ondencheid maakr tussende belangrijkeen onbelangrijkevelden.Gegeven de positie van de koningen is veld hl extreemonbelangrijk. Buijs en Hendriks vinden de heb door mij ingetekendecijfertjes II. In het decembemummer misleidend.Ik citeer: "volgens ik mij beperkt tot een analyse de nummeringin zijn diagram van het karakter van de corremoet de zwarte koning, als de spondentie.Het bleek datmart
een veld tekort komt voor een sluitend verdedigingssysteem. Strenggeredeneert betekentdat dat zwart geenenkel veld heeft dat echt conespondeert.Dit rechtvaardigt de conclusiedat wit altijd wint alshij zwartniet in de gelegenheid sr.elt zijn enige troei het tempo a5-a4,op een gunstig moment uit te spelen. Een winstplan heb ik niet armgegeven.Een proeve voor eenwinstplanzouer alsvolgtuit kunnenzien: 1. We stellenvast welke velden in deze studie van cruciaal belang zijn. Een analyse van de stelling waarin de pion van a5 naara4 is gespeeld kan hier van pas komen. Mijn analyse in het decembemummer bracht aan het licht dat de veldene4 d3 e3 A d6 d7 en e7 in iedergevalvoordezekwalificatie in aanmerkingkomen. 2. Vervolgenskijken we of zwaÍ een sluitend verdedigingssysteem heeft. Dat bleek niet het geval.3. Vervolgensstellenwe een tahl op waarin genoemde cruciale velden tegen elkaar worden afgezel De c€ntrale vraagluidf hoeveelzettenduurt het voor de witte koning wrnnend naar c2 kan spelen.Het woordje winnend dient hier te worden beklemtoond.Wit kan natuurlijk altijd naar c2 lopen maardat betekentniet automatischdat hij danook wint. Indien
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de zwarte koning zich op d6 bevindt" dan heeft wit meteen beet. Na het gedwongenzeje 1...a4speelt hij 2.Éd2! Èc7 3.Éd3.Indiende zwartekoning op e7 staatdan volgt I.s&c2a4 2.Èd3t. Als de koning echter op d7 staatdan vangt wit bol Hetzelfdegeldt overigensvoor de veldend8 en e8, maaÍ zover zijn we nog nietl zie TABEL I zwart aan zet wit aan zet d6 d7 e7 d6 o t
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De getallenstaanvoor halvezetten. Omdat ik de stellingen zowelmet wit als met zwart behandel, bevordert dit, naar ik hoop, de begrijpelijkheid. Bij het opstellenvan de tabelheb ik uiteraard e€rst naar die stellingen gekeken die er het eenvoudigst uitzagen.Zo oogt de stelling wÉe4 zÈd6 met zwart a n zEÍ zÊeÍ simpel. Zwart remiseeí met a5 - a4. Ook een stellingals wÉe3 zÈd7 met wit a n zet is niet moeilijk. Wit spelt l.Éd3 Èd6 (of 1...Ée7 2.*c2 a4 3.Éd3) 2.Éc2 a4 3.ëd2. De vraagrijst of wij, op dit punt van analyseaangekomen,voldoende informatie hebben om de studieop tf lossen.[n de uitgangsstellingis de eerste zet
gedwongen.l.Éd2 l.@c2? a4 =, l.Èdl? a4 = 1...9"3 o1 1...Éd8. Ook 1...Ëc8 is overigensgoedmaarop alle andere zettenkan wit al winnend nazr c2.2.Èdi Volgesde tabel is ook 2.Ée3 goed. Zoals later zal blijken is hier inderdaad sprakevan eendual.2...Éd7 na 2.sbe3 zou 2...Èe7 het antwoordzijn. Volaimgewezen gens de tabel maakt dat voor lengtevande oplossingniet uit. De stelling die we thansop het bord hebbenkomt in de tabel voor. Na ten hoogsteelf zetten speeltde witte koning winnend naarc2. Uiteraardverdienthet aanbeveling de tabel uit te breidenen de oplossing nogmaals tegen het licht te houden. zíeTABEL2
De toevoeging van de extra velden speeltons informatie rn handenwaar we nog niet over beschikten.Op de derdezet kan wit ook 3.Èe2 spelen. Na 3...Èd8 (of 3...Ée8) 4.ÉR komenwe terugin dehoofdvariant. De heren Buijs en Hendriks komen in het maartnummerop de proppenmet een variatieop de zogenaamdeClarke-tabel. Een Clarke-tabel is opgesteld volgenshet principe van de database.ln een databaseworden alle mogelijkestellingenherleid basistot eenaantalelementaire stellingen.In het pionneneindspel van Znar zijn dat de stellingen waarin zwan niet meer kan verhinderendat wit binnendringt in zijn stelling. Alle anderestellingenzijn gere-
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25 la{eerdaar de basisstellingen.bovendien het grote voordeel Hct ordcningsprincipe daarbijis hebben tlat hct schakcn nict het aantal zetten dat wit bil volledig in boekhouden onmaximale tegenstand nodig taardt.Als decomponistniet geheeft om een basisstellingte heelzekeris vandejuistheidvan bereikcn.Als alle stellingenin een studie kan hij de tabel geschemazijn gebrachtdanis men bruiken als extra toets. Er zijn in staatom steedsde optimale echterslechtsweinig studiesdie winstgangte bepalen.Daarnaast zo moeilijk zijn dat het de zijn alle remisestellingenaan moeite zou lonen om een derhetlicht gebracht.De Clarke-ta- gelijke toes aan te leggen.De bel is een arbeidsintensieve studie van Zinar lijkt op eerste methode.In de klassiekepion- gezicht een perfect slachtoffer neneindspelen zonder extra voor de Clarke-tabel.Het exratempiis het nut vande tabeldan tempo verleenlde studie een ook gering. Er zijn snellere ongewoon hoge moeilijkmethodes. methodes die heidgraad. Daarmee is echter
nog niet gezegddat de methodc een goedparadigmais voor andere pionnencindspelen waarin extratempieenrol spelen! In hct decembernummerheb ik nog eenanderestudievan Zinar opgevoerd.Ik ben zo vrijmoedig op te merkendat het geenzin heeft om hier een databasemethode zonder bijbehorende computer op los te laten. Dit geldt ook voor de studie van Hooperin het zelfdedecembernummer,alsmenaldransdepretentie heeft de hele studieop te lossen.
The Rinck - Kubbel match - part 2 by Alain Pallier Between1918and 1928,Rinck andKubbeltook partonly in one common toum.rment. Rinck was very active,as usual(in the 1920-1927 period, he entered su.rdies in l4 toumeys,winning 8 times frst prize).In 1924,the
CeskeSlovotoumey,judged by L.Prokes,was a sEongtoumey in which the surprising frsc prize winner was problemist K.Traxler (1866-1936).Rinck won the 'set orize' for studies
(4thprize,4thhm and3rdcommendationl),but no setprize. More than seventyyears later. the threeKubbel studiesremain modern studieswhen tlre tlrree Rinck havebecomedated.
The rewardsarethosegiven in the provisionalaward,After the eliminationof a surdyby Troitzky (initially 5th Prize),promotionswere apparentlymade:Rinck, in 1414,indicatedlst hm insteadof 2nd hm. But Kubbel, in ,150,his 1925collection,creditedhsi sr.rdywith 4th hm, as it was in the provisionalaward.Kubbel was probablyunawareofthe change(specialthanks to Timothy Whitworth for his help).
26 L.Kubbel [=013132b2a8] 4th Prize CeskeSlovo
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'conected' move by this is the piece defeating White's intended continuation (d). Now 'ncw effect.ive 3.tra8+!, the White continuation using a weaknesshidden in' 2....8h8: this is the Íifth phase(e) of the mechanism.
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l.Ea7 AfI 2.8a2 Ah8 (2...9.f6 3.Áf2 3:e7+ 4.Èb3 L(b5)a6 5.àd5+ Èe8 6.àc7+: 2...997 3.trf2 .Ê.a6!+-) 3.EaE+ Èg7 4.tra1 +-. ln Bondarenko'sbook (Rczvilie Shakhmatnogo Etyuda, Kiev 1982), 2...9f6 is given as the main line, 2...9h8 becominga For Rinck, 1924 is the year of subline with a different white E+minor pieces vs 2 minor fourth move: 3.tra8+ Èg7 pieces studies. In June 1924 4.àh5+: clearly a mistake. White to play and draw only, no less than a dozen of 2...4g7 is alsogiven:3.Ef2Aa6 0161.00studieswerepublished 4.àd5+ Èg8 5.àe7+ Éh7 1.Ad1! Ee1(3,5) 2.gA th2 3.Axg2 Axd6 4.e89 ExeS+ 6.trh2+ -8.h67.àf5+. by Rinck. 5.Éxd7 Eg8 (5...8e2 6.êfl) In SIES Jounwl, issue 0, vol- 6..8'd5+!!Éxd5 stalemate. ume 0, Jan Rusinekchosethis study as an example of the The same year, some months 'black correction' problem earlier, Rinck obtained a fint prize for a similar stalemate theme. After 1.8a7 9fl 2.tra2 the combination. Was Kubbel threatis3.trxb2 (a).Thedefence awareof this study? is a move of the Bishopon b2: aa imprecisemove (b), such as 1...-r,lb or l'....Íe/ axows a white battery(3.E-fZ)and an attack on the black Bishop on fl (this is c). But after 2...-9.h8(!), 3.trfl2doesn'twork; 2...4h8(!)
1.àc4 .0xc4! (1...h19 2.Àb6+ 1...Éa7 ëa7 3.àc8+ 2.adó!) 2.Ea1gds 3.e4!axe4 4.Èb3 Èa7 (4...êd5+ 5.Èa4 for 6.Éb5) 5.Èc4 ÈM 6.a7 hlD 7.a89! (7.a8à+? Éc6! 8.fxhl Ad5+! -+) 7...4xa8 8.trb1+!! tUxbl stalemate.
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White to play and draw L6n! Eel+ 2.ëd2 tre2+ 3.Éc3 trf2 4.9c5+!! Éxc5 stalemate. In themid-twenties, Rinckcomposedmany dominationstudies with two Rooks vs Rook and oneminorpiece: H.Rinck [+0s30.01d2fs1 lsthm CesheSlow 1924
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Éf5 (mate was again threat' ened)4.8d4+! e4 5.Exe4 (battery no.2)5...Hxe4 6.94+! hxg4 7.Èg3!! (andnot7.Bxe4+Éxc4 8.Ég3 Èf5 9.Éf2 Èg4 10.É92 93 11.K3 g2l -+) 1...Vxc2, stalemate.
White to play and win 1.9e5+ Étr7 (l...Ac? 2.898+ Èb7 3.Eg7; 1...Éc8 2.Ea3 .8b 1+ 3.Èe6 Ac7 4.trc3) 2.tra3 Abl+ 3.Èe6 Ab6 (3...Èa6 4.9.c3) 4.trb3 9a2 5.Eb2 Ac4 6.4d4 +-. In the mid twenties,till the mid thirties,Kubbel was at his peak, now able to emulateRinck. The 1928-1935yean wil.lbea titanic struggle with many compositions.
[to be continued].
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(5) Herhalingsoefeningen doorWouterMees A,Wotaws Wij stappenzo langzamerhand Schach-Magazin 1948 af, van "herhalingsoefeningen" niet omdat het begrip verleden tijd zou zijn, maar omdat herhaling attijd gepaardgaat met 'Thema en variaverandering. ties" (titel van de memoiresvan de dirigent Bruno Walter) zou misschieneen betermotto zijn. In de muziekwercldzijn variaties op een thema aan de orde van de dag. Op analogewijze gaanbij de studiesuit deze artikelenreeksherhalingen verandering handin hand. 1) Wit aan zet maakt rcmise, Maar voordatwij onzebeschouwingen onderdezenieuwetitel r.b7 Eg5| trer 2.l:f5 I 94 voortzetten,lijkt het ons nuttig ExQ3.b89-Q.e5+ 4.Èd5/ Èe6 eenste bezienhoe een bepaald themazelf kan evolueren. Van Rueb is het begrip "VSS", A.P.Grin "Vergelijkende de StudiënStu- 4de e.v VetsjernjieLeningrad die" afkomstig.Het is bijzonder 1965 Leerzaan om analoge studies met elkaar te vergelijken, te ontdekkenop welke punten zij met elkaar overeenkomen,of van elkaar venchillen. De Feijter heeft op die manier tal van vergelijkingen gemaakt. Hierondereen VSS, van toepassing op ons onderwerp.
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29 8.4ó+ Éc5 g.Axhl Èxb6 10.h4.
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Inhoudsopgave 9ejaargangnummer 2 pag Redactioneel The history of the endgamestudy (Un)solvedMysteries Blij met Balemans Van Reek's Chessmen Lezers Schrijven De toegevoegdevelden voorbij (epiloog) The Rinck-Kubbel match - part2 (5) Herhalingsoefeningen ARVES-uitgaven
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