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Saturday, May 2, 2009
White to play and win
From Bacrot-Alekseev 2009
Can you guess what Bacrot, with White, played here ?
1a3. It would leave the c3 bishop en prise if black touched it or pushed passed it. If black axed h7 then axb3 and the pawn is still taboo. What do you all think eh?
Hang on, Kh3 looks very nasty. If ..Rxh7 then white has Rh4 winning the rook after Kg6 followed by Bd3+. I think black would be in a zugzwang after Kh3. Ihave changed my mind instead of a3 :). iochange my mind too much in OTB play way too much!
3 comments:
1a3. It would leave the c3 bishop en prise if black touched it or pushed passed it. If black axed h7 then axb3 and the pawn is still taboo. What do you all think eh?
Hang on, Kh3 looks very nasty. If ..Rxh7 then white has Rh4 winning the rook after Kg6 followed by Bd3+. I think black would be in a zugzwang after Kh3. Ihave changed my mind instead of a3 :). iochange my mind too much in OTB play way too much!
Congrats ! Kh3 is the winning move, you guessed right !
Bacrot played 1 Kh3 and won after 1..Rh7 2 Rh4+ Kg6 3 Be4+ 1-0
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