Lasker's Manual of Chess (Dover Chess) by Emanuel Lasker

Author:Emanuel Lasker [Lasker, Emanuel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2013-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

Examples

1 L. Paulsen

White, Metger, to play and win

1. —Let us contemplate this position without seeking for a combination. Black’s ideal is to have his King on QR1 or on Kt2 after his Pawn has been got rid of. He sees his King in the corner, sure that the opponent cannot dislodge it. Alternatively he sees the Bishop on R7, the White Pawn on QKt6, his King on QKt2, moving to R1 and back to Kt2 and meanwhile the White King at bay lest it Stalemate. He tries to bring one of these positions about, resisting every drift that would tend in another direction.

White sees the Black King kept from QR1. A move of the KtP, he thinks, must be countered by P–R6. He aims at manoeuvering his King so as to drive the opposing King off by Zugzwang.

Out of this web of plans the following play logically results:

1 K—Q4 ............

The KtP must not be allowed to advance Checking, since the reply to that advance is to be P–R6.

1 .......... K—B3

2 B—Kt6 K—O3

Of course, if 2 ........., K–Kt4; 3 K–Q5 and conquers OKt7.

3 K—B4 K—B3

4 K—Kt4 K—Q3

5 K—Kt5 K—Q2

6 B—Kt1 K—B2

7 B—R2 ch K moves

8 K—Kt6 and wins.

2. —A somewhat more complicated example follows:

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