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Chessprint March 14, 2004          White to move and win - Find the Solution
Position of the Week: Solution
White To Move and win 1. Bf6+ Ke8 1... Kc8 2. Ba6+ forces the king onto a dark square, allowing Be5+ winning the rook. Of course 1...Kc7 loses to 2. Be5+. 2. Bh5 Rxh5 3. g7 Rg5 4. Bxg5 Bf8 5. g8=B 5. g8=Q is stalemate while 5. gxf8=Q+ Kxf8 and White has insufficient mating material. 5... Be7 All other moves are mate-in-two. 6. Bf7+ and White wins. (Not 6. Bxe7 and Black is stalemated!) Thanks go to Harold van der Heijden for providing the following information about the composer of today's problem: Aleksandr Pavlovich Gulyayev (1908-1998) of Moscow was a top composer, using the pseudonym (A.P. Grin) for many years. The original source of the study is: 2nd commendation Sverdlovskty 1946. Gulyayev also won a 12/13th shared place with it in the best studies of USSR composers during 1946/1947 (USSR study composition championship). The Dutch endgame study society ARVES issued a book about him, written by the British endgame study expert Timothy Whitworth: Whitworth,T (Margraten 1991: ARVES/7): Gulyaev/Grin Chess Endgame Studies.
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