The Complete Chess Swindler by David Smerdon
Author:David Smerdon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New in Chess
Now Tiger goes into full swindle mode:
38.f5! ♗xf5 39.h7! ♖xc2+ 40.♔a3!
Slowly, the blurry chunks of a stalemate are beginning to fall into place. The savvy 40…♗xh7! would put all counterplay to bed, but Black, on the notorious fortieth move, is determined to weave his mating net. He confidently plays the killer blow:
40…♗c5+ 41.b4 ♗d4??
Unusually, the real blunder comes on the 41st move – perhaps Black moved more or less instantaneously after the time control, reasoning that …♗b2+ cannot be prevented. And in a sense, that is correct; the only prevention is in the laws of chess.
42.h8♕+! ♗xh8 43.♖f7+! ½-½
With never-ending checks. White has created the impossible!
Stalemates feature in many of the examples throughout this book, and I have also provided several exercises involving stalemates for your self-study. But we round off this chapter with entertainment rather than education, because I cannot resist showing you my all-time favourite stalemate.
Alexey Troitzky
Vogt
St Petersburg 1896
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