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  • #12
  • This position is an exception.
  •  The rook pawn can not win
  • because the position above is
  • stalemate.  If there were a "i"
  • file then Black would be forced to
  • play Ki7, but since he is stuck on
  • the edge of the board then the
  • position is stalemate and a draw.
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  • #13
  • This was a tournament game played
  • between two class A players at the
  • Purdue University Chess Club in
  • December of 1990.  Now White
  • could try to play ...
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  • Kd2 gaining the opposition, but what
  • would Black do now?
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  • The last reserve tempo pawn move
  • gives Black back the opposition and
  • we have a position very much like
  • position #6 where the White king will
  • move left or right and the Black king
  • will advance on the other side and
  • win.  i.e. ...
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  • The king advances after the White
  • king moves out of the way.
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  • So at position #13 White was aware
  • that Kd2 would lose, so he he tries
  • to get tricky ...
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  • Offering a pawn.  
  • What should Black do
  • now?
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  • He takes the pawn.
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  • By giving up the pawn White gains the
  • opposition.
  • What should Black do
  • now?
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  • Note that it would be bad to retreat
  • the king, so Black offers the pawn
  • back so as to regain a tempo.
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  • White doesn't have much choice but to
  • take it.
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  • Now Black uses his last tempo pawn
  • move to regain the opposition.
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  • The king must give ground on one side
  • or the other.
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  • The Black king advances and crowds
  • out the White king.
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  • Not very many squares he can move
  • to.
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  • Black is going to eat some pawns.
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  • White is going to try to hold onto
  • his pawns if he can.
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  • The first one drops
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  • White is going to try to hold onto
  • his pawns if he can.  Now Black
  • can win the b3 pawn by playing Ka3
  • forcing the White king to move away
  • from the defense of the pawn.  
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  • But Black has a faster way to queen a
  • pawn.  He threatens axb3 and if
  • White were to now play bxa4 then
  • Black just advances the b-pawn until
  • it queens.
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