Sunday 5 June 2016

Study 42

Árpád Rusz
Internet (Talkchess Forum)
2010

White wins

1. Kd2 c3+ 1... Ra8 2. Kc3 Ra3+ 3. Kxc4 Rg3 4. f6+ Kf7 5. Rf5 +- 2. Kc2 2.Kd3? Kf7! 3. Rg2 Kg7! 4. Rf2 Kf7 positional draw 2... Kf7 2... Rc5 3.f6+ Kf7 4. g6+! chameleon echo Kxg6 5. f7 +- 3. Rg2!! Thematic try: 3. Rf3? Rc5 4. g6+ Kf6 5. Rg3 Rc8 (5... Rc7) 6. Rxc3 Ra8 (6... Re8) 7. Rc5 Ra3 8. Kd2 Rb3 9. Ke2 Ra3 = 3... Kg7 3... Rc5 4. g6+ Kg7 5. f6+! chameleon echo Kxf6 6. g7 +- 4. Rg3! Rc5 5. f6+ Kg6 6. Rf3! the rook finally steps to that square 6...Rc8 7. Rxc3 Ra8 8. Rc5 Ra3 9. Kd2 Rh3 10. Ke2 Rb3 11. Re5! Ra3 12. Re7! Kxg5 12... Ra2+ 13. Ke3 Ra3+ 14. Kf4 Ra4+ 15. Re4 Ra1 16. Re5 Ra4+ 17. Ke3 Rg4 18. Rd5! Ra4 19. Rd8! +- 13. f7 Ra8 14. Re8 +-

The main idea of the study lays in the small but very important difference between 3.Rf3? and 3.Rg2!! followed by 4.Rg3. Only in the second case there is later a winning rook manoeuvre (Re5!-Re7!). The positional draw is nice and I like the echo pawn sacrifices (4.g6!, 5.f6!) too in the side variants.

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