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Copyright 1991,1996, 1997, 1998 John Richard Coffey.
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9B0001 How to read chess notation. 1. ... Rxa6 2. Kxa6 e2 3. Rb1 Kf2 4. Rb2 Kf1 5. Rb1+ e1=Q 6. Rxe1 Kxe1 7. Kb5 Kf2 8. Kc4 Kb3 9. Kd3 Kxh3 wins	_____	9B0002 1. ... Rxd2 2. Kxd2 and not Kf5 3. Ke3 and g4 is threateneds. So 2. ... g5! (or b5) 3. g3 gxf4 4. gxf4 Kf5 5. Kf3 b4 6. axb5 axb5 7. h4 h5 (c4 works too) 8. Kf3 c4 9. bxc4 bxc4 10. Kd3 c3 11. Kd3 Kxf4 wins both pawns
9B0003 1. ... Bd3!! and the game Hans Morrow vs. John Coffey continued 2. Qxd3 Nxd3 3. Bxb4 Nxe1 4. Bxe1 Rxa4 with an excellent position. It continued. 5. Bc3 Bxc3 6. bxc3 Rb2 7. Bf1 Rxa2 8. Rxa2 Rxa2 9. c4 Rc2 will also win the c pawn.	_____	9B0004 Call it a matter of personal taste as there are many ways to win this, but my preference is 1. ... a5! where now black will march the pawn down and stalemate white forcing white to play b4 and then mate 4 moves later after axb4 marches to a queen after move 9.
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9B0005 Call it a matter of personal taste as there are many ways to win this. 1. ... a5! (to stop the white pawns) 2. Ke2 Kd4 3. Kd2 e3+ 4. Ke2 Ke4 5. Ke1 Kd3 6. Kd1 e2+ 7. Ke1 Ke3! stalemating the king but white can still move pawns, so 8. b4 axb4 9. a5 b3 10. a6 b2 11. axb7 b1=Q mate!	_____	9B0006 Black can win this because of his extra pawn. He wil play f4 and then f3 and the h pawn will push to queen. But first he plays Kf6 to keep the White king from going back to the kingside. If 1. ... Kf6 2. Kc7 then b5! delays white getting a Q. Black Queens at the earliest around move 9.
9B0007 The trick here is to trade queens and let the extra pawn win the game. Black has to move his king quickly to the queenside or else the white pawn will queen. Black has time to win the pawn on a2 while the threat of f5 and e4 will keep white from capturing the c5 pawn. black should be able to win by move 9.	_____	9B0008 1. .. Nxc3 with a fork on the king and the rook. If 2. Nxc3 Qxc3 with the threat of mate on b2. If 3. Bxc4 Rxc4 with threats on c2. Now 4. Rc1 is suicidal, as the response would be Rb4 mate. But 5. Re2 Ba4 with threats on c2. If 6. Rde1 Bxc2+ 7. Kc1 Bd3+ mates on move 8. If instead 7. Rxc2 Qxc2+ 8. Ka1 Qc3+ 9. Kb1 Rb4 mate.
9B0009 [solution]	_____
9B0009 1. ... Bg3!! Quiet but powerful. Black uses his pieces to attack squares around the enemy king. Now Black threatens 2. ... Qc4+ where 3. Bd3 Qxd3+ or 3. Kf3 Qg4 mate. If 2. Kf1 then Qh1+ wins the rook. if istead 2. Bd3 Qg4+ 3. kd2 Rxd3+ forces mate in 8 more moves! If 4. Kc2 Qe4 is crushing. i.e. 5. Kb1 R3xc3+ 6. Ka2 Qc4+ 7. Kb1 Rxf1 mate. If instead 4. Kxd3 Qe4+ 5. Ke2 (Kd2 is worse after Rd8+) Qxg2+ 6. Kd3 Rd8+ 7. Kc4 Qd5+ 8. Kb4 Bd6+ 9. Ka4 Qc4+ 10. b4 Bc7! forces 11. ... b5 mate. Apparently the best White has is 2. Rxg3 Qxg3 where his is down material in a bad position.	_____

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