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  • This is the kind of ending I have
  • literally had nightmares about.
  • These knight endings are hard to
  • calculate.
  • White's knight is poised to invade my
  • kingside and start eating pawns. I
  • felt that drastic action was
  • needed..
  • I was tired at this point and had a
  • headache so I was playing more on
  • instinct than actual calculation.
  • Assume Black is at the bottom.

  • Black to move
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  • This last round game of the 2006 Utah
  • Open against a 1977 player allowed me
  • to get clear 2nd in the top section.
  • Black to move

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  • White can't afford to take the
  • knight
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  • Black to move

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  • The White Kb3 move is bad.
  • Black to move

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  • Fritz 8 thinks that Nc3 headed to e2
  • is stronger for Black, however, this
  • is not what I played....
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  • Kb4 is also weak
  • Black to move

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  • The beauty of d3 is that Kc3 is met
  • with Ne4+
  • Black to move

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  • White resigns here.
  • Kc3 still has the problem of Ne4+.
  • Nd3+ is threatened.
  • The Black king is poised to invade.
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  • Earlier in the same game I had a
  • dreadful
  • opening and weak middle game. Now
  • that I
  • managed to reach an even ending,
  • Fritz 8
  • prefers g5 here but instead I manage
  • to
  • con my opponent.
  • Black to move

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  • For White Fritz 8 prefers Kf2.
  • Black to move

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  • Wins a pawn.
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