White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
This is from Shirov-Adams, Las Palmas, 1994 1.a4! A great move, anticipating the loss of the pawn and the transposition into a king and pawn ending. If you didn't see that, at least play the move and count out the win. 1...Kf5 2.Kf2 Ke5 3.Ke3 Rxd5 4.Rxd5+ Kxd5 5.h4! Black was a GM and knew the position was lost, so he resigned. White didn’t’ play the drawing move 5.g4? g5 5...Kc4 If it did continue, it would have gone one of two ways. The other way doesn’t work either:5...Ke5 6.h5 Kf5 7.Kd4 Kg5 8.Kc4 Kxh5 9.Kb5 Kg4 10.Kxb6 Kg3 11.Kxa5 Kxg2 12.Kb5 6.h5 Kb4 7.g4 Kxa4 8.g5 Kb3 9.h6 gxh6 10.gxh6 a4 11.h7 a3 12.h8Q 1-0
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