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The procedure from the diagram in post 45 is 1.Bd7 , Ke3 The black king has to hold off the white king as it slowly goes up the board. (for example if 1...Kf3 2.Kd4, kf4 then 3.h4! and the black king is cutoff from advancing further)
2.h4, Ke4 3.h5, Ke5 4.h6, Kf6 and now the white bishop cuts off the black king with 5.Be8
Now the black king cant go Ke7 because it is too far from the queening pawn, therefore the black king is cutoff and the pawn queens.
Last edited by Hans Jung; Monday, 6th April, 2026, 04:48 PM.
Back to Timman's Endgame Studies. The study I showed in post 32 above was actually study four in Timman's 100 Endgame Studies You Must Know. For me I didnt follow them in order presented but in order of what was of immediate interest to me. In my learning of the endgame, going back to my first years of tournament play I learned that in promoting a rook pawn it had to have support of a bishop with the color of the promoting square otherwise a draw. It was with Timman that I found out that there were exceptions and a famous must know exception at that. I had of course by that time drawn positions in tournament games by heading for rook pawn and bishop of the wrong color, and also abandoned positions as draws after getting caught in the same motif.
So it was with some musing and with some amusement that I encountered the study in post 45.
The second game that had intense meaning for me was game fifteen in the book, Geller-Spassky, Alekhine Memorial Tournament, Moscow 1975. I remember intense discussions with Todd and Isaac over this game. First of all it was one of the most famous games involving the King's Indian Attack. Both Todd and me had a background in the King's Indian Attack and for me it was an opening of choice for many years. Then there was the attraction that it was between Geller, the godfather of Sicilian Opening theory, and Spassky himself.
Isaac was learning the ropes at that time and he for sure was an enthusiastic student. The questions he posed Todd and me and they were answered to the best of our ability to the Nth degree - and then there was Timman's delicious words and analysis - eight sublime pages. and then there was Spassky's final blunder after a rare Geller big mistake - such drama.
Last edited by Hans Jung; Monday, 16th March, 2026, 03:48 PM.
There are two games in "The Art of Chess Analysis" that have intense meaning for me. The first is: Ljubojevic - Andersson, Hoogoven Tournament, Wijk aan Zee, 1976. Timman's final note on the game is: "On behalf of Raymond Keene, Ken Rogoff, and Gudmundur Sigurjonsson, who, when I showed them this game, followed it as avidly as I did when I first played it through, I want to convey the feeling that overcame us there in the Spanish town of Orense: that this was the best game of the last twenty years."
Super high praise indeed and at the time I believed it firmly. Now, I don't know. Think of all the games it is ahead of - all of the Fischer games, Tal, Smyslov etc. Is it possible?
Alexei Troitzky, Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1913, White to play and win.
Timman, 1983, A study from Timman himself. White to move and win.
Now the black king cant go Ke7 because it is too far from the queening pawn, therefore the black king is cutoff and the pawn queens.
Last edited by Hans Jung; Monday, 6th April, 2026, 04:48 PM.
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