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I have a studies database, which shows 257 endgame studies by Yuri Averbakh composed between the years 1948 and 1989.
Recently, he was at a chess festival in Moscow and showed three more of his studies, none of which is in my database. I give you them as they are shown in a chess.com article:
#1
This one is probably the most beautiful, according to Sergey Karjakin:
Threatening mate on h6 or winning a rook due to a pin, the white queen uses staircase moves to reach f6 and force black to queen on a1, then the queen goes back using the same technique all the way to f6 to win with a zugzwang. Amazing!
White to move and win
#2
The next one is much simpler: Black obviously needs to capture the only one ace in White's position: a passed pawn. But how to do this?
Black to move and draw
#3
Another beauty: normally queen and knight vs queen is a draw, but not here. White uses the badly positioned black queen by zugzwang! How often do you see a king move as the highlight of such a position?
TWO
1...Ne5+ 2. Ne5?? Ng5+ is the simple solution. If White put up more of a fight, then the solutions are longer.
Here is an example among many:
1... Ne5+ 2. Ke8 Nf3 3. Kd8 Nfg5! 4. e7 Nhf6! 5. Kc7 Nge4! (and the Black King waddles over to gobble the pawn while the pair of Knights, like a two-headed octopus, keep the White King at bay while ready to pounce on the pawn promotion. Heroic Knights. )
THREE
1. Qc6+ Kb8 (1... Ka7? 2. Nb5+ Kb8 3. Qc7+ Ka8 4. Qa7#) 2. Kc2! (very nice! the queen is helpless.) Ka7 3. Nb5+ etc. (as with 1... Ka7)
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Monday, 4th September, 2017, 10:21 PM.
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