The Chess Mind

Author: Dennis Monokroussos.
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An Endgame Exercise from Nakamura-NN: Solution Time
(A day later than intended, but hopefully it just means more of you had the chance to work on it!)

As you can see in the previous post, the task was to figure out what opportunities were missed by both sides in this seemingly trivial endgame that started from this position.



If you're ready, the solution is here - and even it is only partial on one interesting position, which will become fodder for a new blog post!
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on Friday July 21, 2006 at 11:01am
DandyDanD (mail) (www):
Yeah... I couldn't figure out why Black abandoned the Philidor; I suppose I was right in judging Black!

I'll look at all the possible 42nd moves as an exercise; clearly there's something for me to learn here.

Nice find in the Pandolfini book -- I'm glad I won't have that rude awakening during my own game! :-)
7.21.2006 8:50pm