Timeline for How to “crack” this position?
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| Nov 22, 2019 at 18:19 | comment | added | Jossie Calderon | Nice and elaborate comment response. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 17:17 | comment | added | PhishMaster | @Vladan First, thank you for accepting my answer. Of course, there is no 100% guarantee that there is nothing hidden there, but it seems doubtful. That said, it was a position that required patience from both sides, similar to the patience that is sometimes required in some endgames. So thinking about that, and thinking about the "Do Not Hurry" endgame principle, it made me think that despite all else, you could have moved around innocuously for a bit to see if white was a patient: He might have cracked, and moved something that he shouldn't have. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 16:46 | vote | accept | Vladan | ||
| Nov 22, 2019 at 16:46 | comment | added | Vladan | I remember being in a time pressure so I hesitantly agreed to draw the game. I always felt there's something more, but your plans are in line with what I was thinking then. I didn't want to jeopardize the game by trying something extraordinary. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 11:36 | comment | added | PhishMaster | By the way, white also always has that Ng4 as another tempo move: Ng4 at any time, Rg5; Nf3. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 10:32 | comment | added | PhishMaster | I did consider putting that rook on g5 first, but you have to put it back to continue "increasing presure on e4" as you mentioned. If you do not put it back, you cannot increase that pressure, but it clearly does not work. I did very clearly state that I looked at doubling rooks on the g-file, and what I thought of that. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 10:30 | comment | added | Evargalo | @PhishMaster : The point of strating with Re5-g5 was to prevent any such fork. I am not certain this plan would win, but I think it at least forces White to do something concrete to counter it instead of waiting. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 10:26 | comment | added | PhishMaster | @Evargalo I considered improving the king position early on, and there did not help. I did not consider trying to put the second rook on f4, but that does not seem to work due to Ng4 winning back the exchange at the appropriate moment. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 9:08 | comment | added | Evargalo | Nice answer, but I am still not totally convinced (possibly, because I haven't spent enough time trying to crack this). Beside the immediate pawns breaks, have you trying manoeuvring pieces first ? Ideas that come to mind are a king transfert to c5 threatening to invade the queenside (yeah, we gotta be careful when we cross the Bf3 vis-à-vis on c6), or f6 and Bc6-e8-h5(g6), or Rg5 followed by Rd8-g8-g6-f6-f4, increasing presure on e4. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 4:30 | history | edited | PhishMaster | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:13 | comment | added | PhishMaster | P.S. if instead of Kg2, 42.g4, then again, f5 wins after 42...Rh8 43.Bg2 f5! 44.gf ef and if 45.Nf5+ Rf5 46.ef Bg2 -+. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:10 | comment | added | PhishMaster | @JossieCalderon Only black can win this, so white must be patient. Trying to play for a win with white is suicide. 40.g3?? hg 41.fg Rg8 42.Kf2 and now that white has created some serious weaknesses, 42...f5 wins here due to 43.ef Re3! 44.Ke3 Rg3. Just because you can "crack open" a position, that does not mean you should. | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 23:03 | comment | added | Jossie Calderon | What about g3 and Ng2? | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 21:38 | comment | added | PhishMaster | @RewanDemontay Yes, in that case, I do believe that it does not just change the original question and words, but improves it. | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 21:32 | history | answered | PhishMaster | CC BY-SA 4.0 |