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Position Analysis #4 Position Analysis #4

07-03-2009 , 12:50 AM


White to move.

As usual, the solution could be tactical or positional / strategic. But there will be a clearly best move or idea.

This came from a king's indian where black, a quite strong player, decided to deviate early from theory. In the resulting position white certainly has the best of it, but now it's a matter of converting that edge to a win.

Hint/comments on difficulty:

Spoiler:
This problem was selected to be a bit more challenging than the previous problem. The solution is lengthy, but forced and extremely thematic. Computers seem to be having quite a difficult time finding the correct idea until stepped through it. I think this is probably a much easier idea for humans to see. Move 4 is critical.
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07-03-2009 , 01:51 AM
Spoiler:
1. cxd6 cxd6 2. Nxd6 Bxc1 3. Bxe5+ Kg8 4. Qxc1 Qxg4 5. Qh6 Nf5 6. Nxf5 Rf7
1 ... Bxg4 2. Bxe5+ Kg8 3. Qxg4
1 ... Bxc1 2. Bxe5+ Kg8 3. dxc7 Qe7 4. Bd6
1 ... Bxe4 2. Bxe5+ Bf6 3. dxc7 Qxd5? 4. Qxd5 Bxd5 5. Bxf6+ Rxf6 6. c8=Q

The first couple moves are sorta straight forward, but to figure out all the variations I moved the pieces Still, great position for analysis there, Dire. It's got a lot of the cool KID themes, weak kingside dark squares if black trades off his dark square bishop, white undermines the center at d6 and abuses the central dark squares after that, etc. Very nice problem
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07-03-2009 , 03:20 AM
Perfect!

Glad you liked this one. I also really just love this position. It's fun how thematic everything is.
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