White to move. What is the best continuation for White?
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White to move. What is the best continuation for White?
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I can see that 1.Rf5+ draws, but I see no win…is there?
1 Kd3 wins, I think. After 1 … e1=Q/R/B/N (else 2 Rxe2) 2 Rxe1 Kxe1 3 Ke3 White threatens 4 Kf4. But, after 4 … g3 5 Kf3 the g-pawn is a goner anyway, and White’s b-pawn will queen (or rook) with an easy win.
–gb
Kd3 wins.
1. Kd3 wins
1. … e1(Q)
2. Rxe1 Kxe1
3. Ke3 g3
4. Kf3
in the actual game, white played 1.b5 and the game was drawn.
i guess it’s tiredness, or heat-of-the-moment… but you expect a GM at this level to see 1. Kd3 — it’s not that many moves to see ahead.
Wang Yue atoned for this “remis remiss” today by playing what IMHO is one of the all-time great endgame shots. The issue started in the position
8/1pp5/p1bpn1p1/3Bk1pp/P1P3P1/1P2BPK1/2P4P/8 w – – 1 44
(White: Kg3, Bd5,e3, Pa4,b3,c2,c4,f3,g4,h2; Black: ke5, bc6, ne6, pa6,b7,c7,d6,g5,g6,h5; White to move). After 44.Bxg5 Bxd5 45.f4+ Ke4 46.cxd5 Nxg5 47.fxg5, White expected to have an outside passed pawn on the K-side in the K+P ending. But what did Black do? Not just ‘can you see it coming at move 47’, but could you see it in the above diagram when you played 43…Ke5?—!