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| | | (1) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 15:31] | Study: Knight Kicking?
Today my best chess clubs youth was again lambasted after falling
back inro his usual vice of letting his knights be kicked around
by pawns in the opening.
Sounds like a fun study theme. 1.e4 Sd6 2.e5 Sf7 3.e6 Sd8 4.e7 +-
would be a nice variant...if you have a reason why the stupid
donkey can't go elsewhere. "Systematic Movements" were heyday
somewhen in the history of studies, offhand I know an example
K vs S over the whole field, so why not this? Anyone to provide
an actual example?
Hauke
| | | (2) Posted by Bojan Basic [Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 16:44] |
I am not sure whether I understood what are you looking for, but perhaps these examples fit.
H. Aloni
2nd HM Magyar Sakkélet, 1963
 (= 5+5 )
White to play and win
1. f6! Nxf6! 2. gxf6 exf6 3. Nxg4 f5 4. Ne3 f4 5. Ng2 f3 6. Ne1 f2 7. Nd3 f1=Q 8. Nc5# 1-0
B. Soukup-Bardon
Morgenzeitung, 1967
 (= 3+3 )
White to play and win
1. Kc5 g6 2. Nh4 g5 3. Nf3 g4 4. Nh2 g3 5. Nf1 g2 6. Ne3+ 1-0
V. Gerasimov
Münchner Neueste Nachrichten, 1972
 (= 2+4 )
White to play and draw
1. Nh4 g5 2. Nf3 g4 3. Nh2 g3 4. Nf1 g2 5. Ne3 g1=Q 6. Nc2+ Bxc2 1/2-1/2
V. Dolgov
Molodoj Leninets, 1984
 (= 3+4 )
White to play and win
1. Rd8 Na4 2. b3 Nc5 3. b4 Na6 4. b5 Nc7 5. b6 Na8 6. Rxc8 Nxb6 7. Rc6+ Kg5 8. Rxb6 f5 9. Ke6 1-0
H. Mesman
Kaminer MT
Schakend Nederland, 1987
 (= 4+3 )
White to play and win
1. Rf8 Nf4 2. g3 Nh5 3. g4 Nf6 4. g5 Nh7 5. g6 Nxf8 6. g7 1-0
Gretings,
Bojan
| | | (3) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 17:17] |
Thanks, that was *exactly* what I was looking
for (OK, maybe not those where the kickee wins,
that would be bad on the educational part :-)
Hauke
| | | (4) Posted by Jacques Rotenberg [Monday, Feb 8, 2010 08:07] |
Just to compare, here is a very wellknown study with Knight vs King
Mark S. Liburkin
Shakhmaty v SSSR 1938 - 1
 (= 3+4 )
+
1.Cd4+ Rç3 2.Cb5+ Rç4 3.Cd6+ Rç5 4.Cb7+ Rç6 5.Cd8+ Rç7 6.Cé6+ Rd7 7.Cf8+ Ré7 8.Cg6+ Rf7 9.Ch8+!! Rg7 10.T×é1 R×h8 11.Th1 g3 12.Ré3 Rg7 13.Rf4 g2 14.Tg1 Cf1 15.T×g2+ +-
with 9 times the idea ! and a very nice finish !
| | | (5) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Monday, Feb 8, 2010 10:30] |
Yes, that was the one I briefly referred to.
(Briefly since my Internet is at office and my
study collections at home. Luckily at least
my brain is portable :-)
Hauke
| | | (6) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Monday, Feb 8, 2010 20:14]; edited by Sarah Hornecker [10-02-08] |
It is interesting that Korolkov found another interesting position but with only half the manoeuvre.
 (= 5+6 )
V. A. Korolkov
Sverdlovsk Ty, Uralski Rabotchi 1946 (correction)
The original study had wBd6, wRb8, bRb3 and bPh4, but Korolkov must have found something faulty with that. Maybe he wasn't convinced about 2.Rg6. (1.Rg8 h3 2.Bh2 Rf3 etc.)
1.Bh2 Rf2 2.Sg5 g1Q+ 3.Bxg1 Rf1+ 4.Kc2 Rxg1 5.Ra8+ Kb6 6.Sxh3 b3+! 7.Kd2 Rg2+ 8.Kc1 Rc2+ 9.Kb1
 (= 4+4 )
9...Rh2 10.Sg1 Rg2 11.Sf3 Rf2 12.Se1 Re2 13.Sd3 Rd2 14.Sc1 Rd1 15.Ra3 Kc5 16.Rxb3 wins.
However, I'm not fully convinced here. Why not 5...Kb5? If the game goes on as in the main variation, black has a positional draw. So white must try to improve by 12.Sd4+ Kb4! 13.Rc8 (see diagram) but is that won? If yes, it will at least become very difficult for white.
 (= 4+4 )
Black to move
Also, in the main variation:
2...b3 3.Rc8 Rf1+ 4.Rc1 Rh1 5.Sf3 wins, but black can play stronger by 4...Kb5. However, here white still should win by 5.Sxh3! Rh1 6.Rg1! Rxh2 7.Sf2 (or 6.Sf2 Rxh2 7.Rg1!) and activation of his king. Note the fine difference - Pg2 is bad for black!
Even though it is blasphemy, I suggest adding a wPb6 to avoid the Kb5 variation (white can play knight to c1 as in the main variation, then Ra3 Kb4, Ra7 Kb5, Rxb7 and winning with the surviving Pb6).
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