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Thursday, December 27, 2012
The twelve puzzles of Xmas
Position from a variation which did not take place.
What was the variation and in what game might it have occurred?
1 comment:
Anonymous
said...
Korchnoi-Karpov Game 5 1978 which (more famously?) ended with White trying to win with B + wrong colour rook pawn. Instead of 55.Be4+, 55.Bf7+ Kc6 56.Qe4+ Kb5 (56...Kb7 lasts a bit longer) 57.Qc4+ Ka4 58.Qa6#
1 comment:
Korchnoi-Karpov Game 5 1978 which (more famously?) ended with White trying to win with B + wrong colour rook pawn. Instead of 55.Be4+, 55.Bf7+ Kc6 56.Qe4+ Kb5 (56...Kb7 lasts a bit longer) 57.Qc4+ Ka4 58.Qa6#
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