Showing posts with label Mack Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mack Smith. Show all posts

Saturday, September 3, 2011

A "simple" pawn ending

Position after 45.Ka3: does conversion to a pure pawn ending with 45...Rxb5 draw?
In the last round of the CICL summer league tournament graciously hosted by the gurus of capital at Citadel Group, Mack Smith and I played a fun game with several interesting points. Learn from my mistakes! 

Beginners may wish to play around with the trébuchet position first to better understand what's going on in the pawn ending. You'll find a brief explanation in the Wikipedia article on zugzwang.

Friday, June 24, 2011

New video from Chess at Citadel

Matthias Pfau's comments are already interesting.  I enjoyed watching this game (even as King Ong was thrashing me on the adjoining board), and participated in a bit of the post-mortem.