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  • White: garrote on FICS
  • Black: A class A player.
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  • King pawn opening.
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  • Attack e5.
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  • Defend e5.
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  • The Ruy Lopez opening threatens the
  • knight that defends e5.
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  • This is considered one of the best
  • responses.
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  • Removes the knight.
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  • Black would rather keep his pawns
  • intact so that he doesn't have too
  • many "pawn islands" that could become
  • a weakness.  Why can't White now
  • play Nxe5? Because Black could
  • respond Qd4! getting the pawn back.
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  • Castling renews the threat on the
  • pawn, because after Nxe5 then Qd4 no
  • longer works because of Nf3 Qxe4?,
  • Re1 pinning the queen.
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  • Pin the knight that threatens the
  • pawn.
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  • Put another pawn in the center and
  • threaten e5.
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  • This is a common move played here.
  •  I am told that Bd6 and exd4 are
  • also common.
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  • Captures.  Black should not
  • respond fxe5 because of Qxd8+ Rxd8,
  • Nxe5 winning the pawn.
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  • This is how Black guarantees that the
  • knight will still be pinned.
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  • Recaptures.
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  • Recaptures.
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  • Breaks the pin.
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  • Removes the knight that attacks e5.
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  • Recaptures.
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  • Threatens e4.
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  • Defends it.
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  • Threatens to remove the knight.
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  • Ditto.
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  • Takes the knight.
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  • Recaptures while maintaining pressure
  • on f6.  Why not Nxe4 now? After
  • Re1 Nxg5, Rxe5+ Ne6, Rxe6+ Kd7, R3e3
  • Black will be forced to play Re8 to
  • stop Re7+.  Then both rooks will
  • be traded and White has a won endgame
  • because of the pawn majority on the
  • kingside.
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  • Even though castling is important,
  • Black needs to keep his king on the e
  • file to prevent one of the White
  • rooks from reaching d7.
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  • Remove the knight.
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  • Recaptures.  If instead gxf6 then
  • Rd1 Rd8, R3d3 and White owns the d
  • file.  But if then Rxd3, Rxd3
  • Rf7! Black can hold the game just so
  • long as he doesn't trade rooks.
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  • Gets this rook out of the way.
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  • Recaptures.
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  • Here is the rub.  White owns the
  • d file and will get to d7.
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  • Necessary to save the pawns.
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  • Rook on the 7th.
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  • Black saves his c7 pawn.
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  • White gladly trades because he has
  • the better endgame.
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  • Although it had to be proven to me,
  • White has a won endgame here.
  •  The idea is that the 3 white
  • pawns on the queenside can stop the 4
  • black pawns on the queenside.
  •  Meanwhile the white king will
  • assist his pawn majority on the
  • kingside until he can create a passed
  • pawn that will win.
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  • Prepares to advance the king.
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  • Black would like to mobilize his
  • queenside pawns.
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  • This is the critical move! By moving
  • the pawn now (and not before) White
  • stops the black pawns and locks out
  • the enemy king.
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  • The king tries to stop the advance of
  • the enemy pawns.
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  • The king advances.
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  • So does the black king.
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  • White wants to play f4 eventually.
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  • Black hopes to use his king and pawn
  • together to stop the White pawn
  • majority.
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  • Drive the king back.
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  • He retreats.
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  • The king goes here to support an f4
  • advance.
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  • Black advances on the queenside.
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  • f4 advances.  It would be a
  • mistake for Black to take because of
  • Kxf4 and then g4 produces a passed
  • pawn on the h file.
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  • It does Black no good to take the
  • pawn on c4 because he would tripple
  • his pawns and have no hope of
  • creating a passed pawn.
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  • It is necessary to get rid of the
  • pawn defending g5.
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  • Recaptures.
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  • Marches over to advance the queenside
  • pawns.
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  • Black bides his time.
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  • Advance!
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  • Black bides his time.  White
  • could win with g5 now, but the pawns
  • on the kingside lock him out so he
  • would have to march his king over to
  • the queenside to win.  (Even if
  • Black plays a5 and a4, White can
  • still penetrate the queenside by
  • playing the king to b2 and then
  • playing c3.)
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  • Captures.  Now White has a passed
  • h4 pawn.  A passed pawn is one
  • that can not be stopped by
  • other pawns.
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  • Recaptures.
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  • Defends.
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  • Running out of moves.
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  • Advance.
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  • For the next few moves White will
  • force the king closer to the back
  • rank.
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  • Now the king goes for the enemy
  • pawns.
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  • Black has to take this pawn.
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  • Got it.
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  • Black has to take this pawn.
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  • Now the White king is in perfect
  • position to assist the pawn to a
  • queen.
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