Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Inflexible doubled pawns at endgame

Difficult to believe but black cannot use its queenside majority because they are doubled. This is good to remember because in the Spanish Exchange Variation black get also its double pawns.
What to do if fighting them? The closer we are to the endgame, the near we are to winning.

ISR-ch, Tel Aviv
Sutovsky, Emil (2480) vs. Mashian, Yaacov (2205)
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
abcdefgh
0
(black to move)
1.e4e5
2.Nf3Nc6
3.Bc4Bc5
4.c3Nf6
5.d3d6
6.Nbd2O-O
7.h3Bb6
8.Bb3Ne7
9.Nc4Ng6
10.O-Oc6
11.Nxb6axb6
12.Re1Be6
13.Bc2d5
14.d4dxe4
15.Nxe5Nxe5
16.dxe5Qxd1
17.Bxd1Nd7
18.Rxe4Bxa2
19.Bc2Bd5
20.Rxa8Rxa8
21.Re1Ra1
22.f4g6
23.g4g5
24.Kf2gxf4
25.Bxf4Rxe1
26.Kxe1f6
27.exf6Nxf6
28.Kf2Be6
29.Be5Nd7
30.Bc7Kg7
31.Kg3b5
32.Kf4Bd5
33.Bf5Nc5
34.Be5+Kg8
35.Kg5Be4
36.b4Bxf5
37.Kxf5Nd3
38.Bd4Kf7
39.h4Nc1
40.g5Ne2
41.Be5b6
42.Ke4Kg6
43.Ke3Kf5
44.Kxe2Kxe5
45.Kf3Kf5
46.Kg3c5
47.Kf3Ke5
48.Kg4Ke4
49.h5Ke5
50.g6hxg6
51.hxg6Kf6
52.Kh5Kg7
53.Kg5Kf8
54.Kf6Kg8
55.Ke6Kg7
56.Kd6c4
57.Kc6Kxg6
58.Kxb6
 

Timman used this strategy in this game.

Yugoslavia , Yugoslavia
Timman, Jan H vs. Matanovic, Aleksandar
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
abcdefgh
0
(white to move)
1.e4e5
2.Nf3Nc6
3.Bb5a6
4.Bxc6dxc6
5.O-Of6
6.d4exd4
7.Nxd4c5
8.Nb3Qxd1
9.Rxd1Bg4
10.f3Be6
11.Be3b6
12.a4Ne7
13.Bf4c4
14.Nd4O-O-O
15.Nc3Bf7
16.Bg3Ng6
17.Nf5Rxd1+
18.Rxd1Ne7
19.Ne3Nc6
20.Ned5Bc5+
21.Bf2Bxf2+
22.Kxf2Re8
23.h4Kb7
24.Ne3Be6
25.g4Rd8
26.Rxd8Nxd8
27.g5c6
28.f4fxg5
29.hxg5Kc7
30.f5Bg8
31.Kf3b5
32.e5g6
33.e6Bxe6
34.fxe6Nxe6
35.Ne4c3
36.bxc3bxa4
37.Nc4c5
38.Kg4Kc6
39.Nf6Nc7
40.Nxh7Nd5
41.Nf8Nxc3
42.Nxg6Kd5
43.Na3Ne4
44.Nf4+Ke5
45.Nd3+
 

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