Tricky endgame positions
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MJMcCready
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Tricky endgame positions
Do they get more difficult to assess than this? White to play btw. Please post if so.
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Matt Mackenzie
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Re: Tricky endgame positions
Recall first seeing the closing moves of this genuinely insane encounter in John Roycroft's classic work Test Tube Chess.
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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John Clarke
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Re: Tricky endgame positions
First came across this game when Canadian master Nathan Divinsky included it in a lecture he delivered at my north London chess club. He turned it into a real chess shaggy-dog story. I'll never forget his comment as he made the final moves on the demo board: " ... and the game's drawn. SORRY!"
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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MJMcCready
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Re: Tricky endgame positions
The game was drawn yes but at first sight it looks like the white king can take shelter behind the pawns, which obviously didn't happen. I don't use engines so I can't tell whether a draw was the right result.