As White I
reached this position on chessdotcom; Black to play.
Obviously Black
is threatened with the capture of his f-Pawn and my h-Pawn could be a threat,
so what should he do?
Black panicked
and played 38…Nxe5? and after 39.dxe5 Rxc3+ 40.Kd2 Rc2+ 41.Kd1 Rc4 42.Rxf7+ he eventually lost. However,
there was no need to panic. I won’t
go into a lot of analysis, but engine analysis shows that 38...Rh2 going after
the h-Pawn straightway leads to a win for White as does both 38...Ke8 and 38...Rxc3. Still, after any of these moves the road to victory
seems an arduous one and I’m not sure I would have found the way.What was interesting was the defense 38...Bf5! Everyone who thinks I would have found 39.Rxf5! raise your hand….What?...Nobody? You are right; I would have played 39.Bg7 and after 39…Rxc3 40.Kd2 Ra3 41.h6 Ra2+ 42.Kc3 Ra3+ it’s only a draw.
The best line runs: 39.Rxf5! exf5 40.Kxd3 Rh2 41.Nh7 Rh3+ 42.Kd2 Rxh5 43.Bg5+ f6 44.Bxf6+ Kf7 45.Ng5+
And now, according to the engines, White has
an easy win. Maybe if you’re rated high
enough, but for me it looks like White
has a difficult technical win.
I don’t have a moral to this but just thought it
was an interesting position.
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