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Play like Pogonina: Pogonina (2467) - Romanko M (2451)
Written by Natalia Pogonina
Friday, 22 May 2009
Today we are going to look at a position from the last round of Moscow Open-2009 where I had the white pieces against Marina Romanko and needed at least a draw to win the tournament (see my interview for more details). My opponent decided to put up a fight, so we arrived at the following position (see diagram).
Do you see how to win with White? This problem is easier than the previous one, but still nice and memorable to me. Press "More" to see the solution.
36.Rf6! The position is closed and Black's pieces have no time to rescue its king gf 37.Rf3 Qh6 is also possible, but I prefer the move I made since it offers more opportunities to White Ke7 38.Qh6 Rf8 39.Rf6 after 39.Qf6 Ke8 40.h6 Qe7 41.Qg7 f6 42. Qg6 Qf7 43.Rf6 Qg6 44.Rg6 White has an absolutely won position (see diagram), but I decided not to exchange queens so that to finish the game earlier
40.Bf5 (40.Re6! - I was in time trouble and didn't notice this move, although I saw that after 40.Bf5 Black can't take on d5 because of Re6 - what a joke!) 40..Rd5 cutting the knot [40..Rg8 allowed a beautiful finish: 41.Be6! fe 42.Re6 Kf7 43.Rg6! Rg6 44.hg Ke8 45.Qh8 Kd7 46.Qd8 Kd8 47.g7+- since the g-pawn can't be stopped (see diagram) ]
41.Re6
1-0
P.S. Please let me know whether you liked this game. Was the problem easy, just ok, or hard for you?
Natalia Pogonina,
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Comments (5)
1. Written by Peter Zhdanov on 00:04 23 2009 .
Chess viewer
These variations seemed relatively easy to me during the game itself, but while reading this article my mind got overloaded.
We should probably find a chess viewer to make it easier for people to follow the annotations.
2. Written by
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on 14:25 23 2009 .
weakie
I saw Rxf6 gxf6 Qxh6+ Ke7 Qxf6+ right away, but as a relatively weak player I couldn't work out all the continuations in my head. I am not sure if I would have had the courage to play that move over the board!
thanks,
Roald Euller Washington DC
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on 19:17 23 2009 .
weakie
I missed the epaulette mate, then saw 40 Bf5 but thougth it was just to take away flight squares.
Clever echo finish.
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on 04:53 27 2009 .
weakie
It is more instructive to solve the puzzles without moving the pieces. Chessviewer is not a ggod idea. Good puzzle and a well played game. I would give it an intermediate strength rating.
5. Written by Peter Zhdanov on 07:57 27 2009 .
weakie
Thanks, Glenn.
Yes, I meant a chess viewer to see the game itself, not to help solve the problem. The combination is indeed not that hard, but still instructive.
