The Chess Mind

Author: Dennis Monokroussos.
This is a blog for chess fans by a chess fan who is more than a chess fan - other topics do creep in from time to time, per my interest.
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

A Dvoretsky-simple position: Solution time
On Monday I bestowed this position on my readers:



It's White to move and win, but it's not easy! If you think you've figured it out, though, you can confirm your results here.

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on Thursday June 12, 2008 at 6:33pm. 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks

Monday, June 9, 2008

A Dvoretsky-simple position
"Dvoretsky" refers to the (rightly) famous trainer and author, Mark Dvoretsky, and the adjectival phrase "Dvoretsky-simple" refers to something that's presented as a sort of warm-up exercise in his books or articles, but would be considered a real workout in almost any other publication. For example, take the following position:



This is the very first exercise in the book Secrets of Endgame Technique (co-authored with Artur Yusupov ["Jussupow" for those who want to look him up in ChessBases databases]), recently reissued in a corrected and expanded edition by Edition Olms in their "Progress in Chess" series. If you're over 2000 and have a work ethic, get the book!

Anyway, back to the problem: it's White to move and win, and if you can solve this quickly you should definitely give yourself a pat on the back. If you can't, don't feel bad - but keep trying. It took me quite a while to get it, but when I finally did, the satisfaction of doing so made it worthwhile. The answer will be posted by Thursday.

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on Monday June 9, 2008 at 10:26pm. 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks