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Pete Tamburro on

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In today's position, Black is threatening to very quickly move his pawn to h1 and promote it to a queen. White has either got to figure out a way to stop the pawn from queening or come up with some other plan ...


Solution:

1.Nc1 h2 2.Be8+ Ka5 [2...Kb4 3.Nd3+ Kb3 4.Nf2 Kxb2 5.Kc7 a5 6.Kxd6 Kb3 7.Bf7 a4 8.Bxd5+ Kc3 9.e4 a3 10.e5 a2 11.Bxa2 Kd2 12.e6 Ke2 13.Nh1 Kf1 14.e7 Kg1 15.e8Q Kxh1 16.Bd5+ Kg1 17.Qe1#] 3.Nd3 h1Q [3...d4 4.Kc7 h1Q 5.b4#] 4.b4+ Kb6 5.Nb2 a5 [To stop the mate with Na4. Another way to delay mate, but not defeat, is 5...Qa1 6.Na4+ Qxa4 7.Bxa4 a5 8.bxa5+ Kxa5 9.Kc7 Kb4 10.Kxd6 Kc4 11.Bb5+ Kxb5 12.Kxd5 Kb6 13.Kd6 Kb7 14.Kd7 Kb6 15.e4 Kc5 16.e5 Kd5 17.e6 and the pawn queens] 6.Na4+ Ka6 7.b5# Henri Rinck, the composer, gives us a tour de force demonstration of the potential of the knight.

 

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