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No. 186 – Vol. XVII – October 2011 XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-+-+0 9+P+-+-+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9-+-+n+-+0 9+-+-+-vl-0 9-+-+k+K+0 9+-+-+R+-0 xiiiiiiiiy White to play and win EG is produced by the Dutch-Flemish Association for Endgame Study (‘Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor schaakEindspelStudie’) ARVES http://www.arves.org EG WAS FOUNDED BY JOHN ROYCROFT IN 1965 Editor in chief Harold van der Heijden Michel de Klerkstraat 28, 7425 DG Deventer, The Netherlands e-mail : [email protected] Editors Spotlight : Jarl Henning Ulrichsen Sildråpeveien 6C, N-7048 Trondheim, Norway e-mail : [email protected] Originals : Ed van de Gevel Binnen de Veste 36, 3811 PH Amersfoort, The Netherlands e-mail : [email protected] Computer news : Emil Vlasák e-mail : [email protected] Prize winners explained : Yochanan Afek e-mail : [email protected] Themes and tasks : Oleg Pervakov e-mail : [email protected] History : Alain Pallier e-mail : [email protected] Lay-out : Luc Palmans e-mail : [email protected] printed (& distributed) by -be- à aix-la-chapelle e-mail: [email protected] Editorial HAROLD VAN DER HEIJDEN As we all know, Yochanan Afek is one of Anton Frisk Kockum – Mikael Jonsson the most active persons in our field. As an ac- XIIIIIIIIYSweden 2011 tive chess player and trainer he also manages 9-+-mK-+-+0 to propagate our art to the general chess world. In this issue you will see some excel- 9wq-zP-+-+-0 lent examples of his activities (e.g. endgame 9-+-+-+-+0 study tourney announcements, and also see 9+-+-+-+-0 the originals section). For the last couple of 9-+-+-mk-+0 months he has also had a website: www. 9+-+-+-+-0 afekchess.com. The most important chess composition 9-+-+-+-+0 event of the year, the meeting of the World 9+-+-+-+-0 Federation for Chess Composition, took place Black to move in Italy. In this issue we have a report and the Black played 60…Ke5 and White re- Study of the Year 2010. signed. It is very likely that White overlooked René Olthof reports that Alexander Rueb the fact that he could have set a trap: 60.Kd7 (1882-1959) was included in the Dutch chess Kd5 61.Kd8 Kd6? 62.c8S+. The winning canon (see http://schaaksite.nl/page.php?id= move 61…Ke6! 62.c8Q+ Kd6 is not so obvi- 3030 in Dutch). As members of the Alexan- ous (Tidskrift för Schack ii2011). der Rueb Vereniging voor Eindspelstudies But even more interesting is the fact that (ARVES) will know, he was founder and first White’s last move was 60.Kd7-d8?. The drawing president of FIDE (for 25 years), and also fa- move – not easy to see – was 60.Kc6! mous for his collection and books about end- Stop press! Yochanan Afek, yes him game studies. again!, informs me that he just received a pos- Endgame study knowledge can be very itive response of the organizing committee of helpful in o.t.b. play. This is a remarkable ex- the famous Tata Steel Chess Tournament to ample: his proposal to organize another endgame study solving event (January 28th, 2012, Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands) (See also p. 340). – 303 – Originals (34) EDITOR : ED VAN DE GEVEL “email submissions are preferred.” Judge 2010-2011: Jarl Ulrichsen “Something old and something new”. In XIIIIIIIIYNo 17846 G. Josten this column you will find some studies by 9-+-+-+-+0 new composers mixed in with studies by fa- miliar names. We start with a study of one of 9+-+-+-+-0 the regulars: Mario Garcia. 9-+-+-+-+0 XIIIIIIIIYNo 17845 M.G. Garcia 9sN-+-sn-+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9-+P+-zp-+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9+K+-+-+k0 9-+p+-tRR+0 9P+-+-+-+0 9zp-zp-+-+p0 9+-+-+-+-0 9-zpKvL-+-+0 b3h3 0004.21 4/3 Draw 9+-+-+-+-0 i) 1.Kb4? f3 2.Sb3 f2 3.Sd2 Sf3 4.Sf1 Kg2 9-+-mk-+-+0 5.Se3+ Kg1 6.c5 Sd4 7.Ka5 Sc2 8.Sxc2 f1Q 9+-+-+-+q0 wins. ii) Sf3 4.Sf1 Kg2 5.Se3+ draws. c4d2 3210.05 4/7 Win iii) Kf1 6.Se3+ Ke2 7.Sf5 Se5 8.Sg3+ Kf3 No 17845 Mario Guido Garcia (Argentina). 9.Sf1 draws. 1.Rf2+ and now: iv) Se7 9.Ka2 Sd5 10.c6 draws. – Kd1 2.Rg5 Qe1/i 3.Re5 cxd4 4.Rxe1+ Kxe1 Ilham Aliev also has shown studies in the 5.Rf5/ii h4 6.Kxd4 a4 7.Kd3 wins, or: column before, but his co-author is a new – Ke1 2.Re6+ Kd1 3.Re5 Qh3 4.Be3/iii Qg4+ name to me. Ilham informs us that Gadir Gu- 5.Kxc5 Qg7 6.Rg5 wins. seinov is a 25 years young otb grandmaster. i) cxd4 3.Rxa5 Ke1 4.Ra1+ Kxf2 5.Rxh1 NoXIIIIIIIIY 17847 I. Aliev & G. Guseinov wins. 9-+-+-+-+0 ii) 5.Rh2? c5 6.Rxh5 a4 7.Rxc5 b3 8.Kxd4 9+-zp-+-zp-0 b2 9.Rb5 a3 10.Kc3 Kd1 11.Rh5 b1S+ draws. 9-zpp+-+-+0 iii) 4.Rxc5? Qe6+ 5.Kd3 Qh3+ 6.Be3 Qd7+ 9zp-+R+-+-0 draws. 9P+k+P+rzP0 Gerhard Josten is another composer whose 9+-+-+p+-0 work regularly features in this column. 9-mKPzP-+-+0 No 17846 Gerhard Josten (Germany). 9+-+-+-+-0 1.Kc3/i f3 2.Sb3 f2 3.Sd2 Kg2/ii 4.c5 Sf3 5.Sc4 Kg1/iii 6.Se3 Se5 7.Kb3 Sc6 8.a3 Sd4+ b2c4 0400.56 7/8 Win 9.Ka2 Sf5 10.c6 Sxe3 11.c7 f1Q 12.c8Q No 17847 Ilham Aliev & Gadir Guseinov draws. (Azerbaijan). 1.d3+ Kb4 2.Rd4+ (c3+? Kxa4;) – 304 – Ed van de Gevel – Originals (34) Kc5 3.Rc4+ Kd6 4.e5+ Kxe5 5.Rxg4 f2 ARVES webmaster Peter Boll decided to 6.Re4+ (Rg5+? Kf6;) (d4+? Kf5;) Kf5 7.Re8/i compose a study in memory of his old friend, Kf4/ii 8.Re7 (Rf8+? Ke3;) Kg3/iii 9.Rf7/iv g6 who also was fond of endgame studies. Al- (c5; h5) 10.Rf6/v Kg2 11.Rxg6+ Kh3 12.Rf6 though I found a couple of studies by Peter in wins. Harold’s database I believe this is Peter’s first i) 7.Re7? Kf6 8.Re8 Kf7 wins. appearance in this column. ii) Kg4 transposes to the main line after No 17849 P. Boll 8.Rf8 Kg3 9.Rf7 g6 10.Rf6. inXIIIIIIIIY memory of Huub van Dongen iii) g6 is another transposition after 9.Rxc7 9-+-tr-+-+0 Kg3 10.Rf7. 9+-+-+-zp-0 iv) 9.Rxg7+? Kxh4 10.Rf7 Kg3 11.Kc3 Kg2 9L+-+P+-+0 draws. 9zp-+-+-+-0 v) 10.Kc3? Kg2 11.h5 gxh5 12.Rg7+ and White can only draw. 9-mk-vL-+-+0 Back to Mario Garcia again who has com- 9+-+-+-+-0 posed a study in memory of his compatriot 9-+-+-+-+0 Oscar J. Carlsson who died on 28vi2011. 9+-+K+-+-0 No 17848 M.G. Garcia d1b4 0320.12 4/4 Win In XIIIIIIIIYmemory of Ing. Oscar J. Carlsson No 17849 Peter Boll (the Netherlands). 1.e7/ 9-+-+N+-wq0 i and now: 9tR-+-zPK+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 – Rxd4+ 2.Bd3 Rxd3+ 3.Ke2 wins, or: 9+-+-vl-mk-0 – Re8 2.Bxg7 Kc5/ii 3.Bf8 Kd6 4.Bc8/iii 9-+-+-+-+0 Rxc8/iv 5.e8Q+ wins. i) 1.Bd3? Rd6 2.e7 Re6 3.Bxg7 Rxe7 4.Bf8 9+-+-+-+-0 Kc3 5.Bxe7 Kxd3 draws. 9-+-+-+-+0 ii) after 2…a4 White has no problems, e.g. 9+-+-+-+-0 3.Bf8 Kc5 4.Be2 Kd6 5.Bh5 Rxe7 6.Bg4 a3 f7g5 3131.10 4/3 Draw 7.Kc2 a2 8.Kb2 wins. No 17848 Mario Guido Garcia (Argentina) iii) 4.Be2? Ke6 5.Bg4+ Kf6 6.Kc2 Rxe7 1.Ra6 Qh5+ 2.Kf8 Qh3 3.Rc6 and now: 7.Bxe7+ Kxe7 draws. – Qf3+ 4.Sf6 Qxc6 5.e8Q Qxf6+ 6.Qf7 Qd8+ iv) again 4…a4 does not worry White, e.g. 7.Qe8 Bd6+ 8.Kf7 Qf6+ 9.Kg8 Be5 10.Qe7 5.Bg4 a3 6.Kc2 a2 7.Kb2 wins. Qxe7 stalemate, or: – Qd7 4.Rb6/i Qc8 5.Kf7 Qf5+ 6.Kg8 Kf4 The last study in this column is also by a 7.Sg7/ii Qg5 8.Rb4+ Ke3 9.e8S Qd8 new composer, one who is just 12 years young 10.Kh7 draws. (born 30iv1999). The great grandfather of this i) 4.Ra6? Qc8 5.Rb6 Bd4 6.Rd6 Bc5 7.Kf7 talented Dutch o.t.b. player, who is already of Qf5+ 8.Rf6 Qh7+ 9.Sg7 Bxe7 10.Rf5+ Kg4 considerable playing strength (elo rating wins. 2153), was three times Dutch champion Ar- nold van Foreest (1863-1954). Jorden main- ii) White’s 7th and 8th moves can be ex- tains a homepage (including studies!) at: http:/ changed. /stimp.home.xs4all.nl/jorden/index.html . On 21vii2011 the Dutch chess organiser On studies his mentors are Bert van der Huub van Dongen died at the age of 55. Marel and Yochanan Afek. – 305 – Ed van de Gevel – Originals (34) XIIIIIIIIYNo 17850 J. van Foreest v) Rh6+ 5.Bxh6 Bxh6 6.Kg4 a3 7.Kh5 a2 9R+-+-+-+0 8.Rg4+ Kb5 9.Kxh6 wins. 9+-+-+pvl-0 vi) This move, allowing the white rook to get behind his pawn, is only available because 9-+r+P+P+0 of the first move and is the key difference be- 9zpk+-+-+-0 tween the thematic try and the solution. 9p+-+-+-+0 vii) Kd3 7.Rf4 Rxf7 8.Rxf7 Kxd2 9.Rf3 a2 9+-+-+-+-0 10.Ra3 wins. 9-+-vL-+K+0 9+-+-+-+-0 g2b5 0440.23 5/6 Win No 17850 Jorden van Foreest (the Nether- lands).