30 Dec 11
Originally posted by Paul LeggettOh yes, you're correct. I don't mean its "the move" as a "matter of fact" statement. It's the move for me. This endgame study of course has some good memories - it was the last time I was in a chess club actually! The pawn exchange is good - I look at it as the same thing. Its the same idea really...it still requires h5.
Don't you think it would be more appropriate to say "h5 is an answer, and a good one?" instead?
No one disuptes that it is a good move. It's just not the only move that wins, and there is a good chance that it is not the best (I personally think TomTom's cxc4 move is the strongest), but a win is a win, and all wins are 1 point on the crosstable, no ...[text shortened]... ve fun and enjoy the endeavor, so if it works for you, that's all that really matters.
Anything outside of these two moves (which is the same idea really) makes life very difficult for white, when it wouldn't really have to be. I concede that there are more than one winning line. The black defenses of several lines are in my opinion rather beautiful. This makes its study all the more interesting.
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31 Dec 11
Originally posted by PhySiQThe next pitcher is on me then! And I'll extend the offer to anyone passing through Orlando USA- just give me a holler when in town!
Oh yes, you're correct. I don't mean its "the move" as a "matter of fact" statement. It's the move for me. This endgame study of course has some good memories - it was the last time I was in a chess club actually! The pawn exchange is good - I look at it as the same thing. Its the same idea really...it still requires h5.
Anything outside of these two ...[text shortened]... are in my opinion rather beautiful. This makes its study all the more interesting.
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31 Dec 11
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Originally posted by PhySiQ5. f4! Kc5??
Time to drop the Nuke on all of the above propositions. Notice tomtom your 4. hxg5 move - wasn't at all possible in my previously proposed line...so I'm not sure where you were going with that one...
Your proposed line 5 f4 which you posted as f4{!} draws, if not loses to Kc5.
However, playing Kd3 after g6 does change things...and it ma over a board? and how would you react if it happened to be played against you?
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6.g4!
PS. I found this f4 line because of this resource. I was actually in the section of Silman's Complete Endgame Course that covers this tactic.
Edit: actually this forces a draw... I figured that 6...hxg4 7.f5 gxf5 8.h5 and whites pawn wins because the king can corral those two kingside pawns....BUT... 8...d5 and black can get two pawns on the sixth that are separated by two files which will queen and the best white can do is try for perpetual.