What It Takes to Become a Chess Master by Andrew Soltis

Author:Andrew Soltis [Soltis, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-84994-088-7
Publisher: Pavilion Books
Published: 2012-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

Once again there are obvious candidates. One is 5 dc1 so that if Black tries to activate his pieces (5 … e8 followed by … e5, … e6 and … ff8) he can continue 6 b7 and cc7 with great pressure.

Or White can try to force a winning endgame with 5 b6, followed by dc1 and then b7 or xb8/a7.

Each of these lines looks very good for him and he would likely end up a pawn or so ahead in an endgame. But is it good enough?

Maybe not. As promising as these lines are, a master would be at least a little apprehensive about heading into a mere pawn-up endgame.

Why? Because White’s earlier position was simply too good to sell cheaply. It was the kind of position you can win in the middlegame.

White wanted more than an endgame and found it on the kingside. Back at the first diagram he detected a target at f6 and played 1 g4!. His idea is 2 g5 followed by 3 gxf6+ xf6? 4 e4, winning.

Black’s queenside pieces can’t defend the king and he was in deep trouble after 1 … g5 2 h4!.

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