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FIDE Surveys Adrian Mikhalchishin
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1.Sc2!
1.Sc4? d5 2.Se5 Ke6 3.Sg4 Kf5 4.Sh6
Ke4.
1...Ke6 2.e4!
2.Ld4? Kd5 3.Kd7 (3.Lb6 Ke4 4.Kd7 Ld2
5.Ke6 Kd3) 3...Ke4 4.Kd6 Le3 5.Le3 Kd3.
2...Lf4!
2...d5 3.Sd4 Kd6 4.e5! Ke7 5.Kc7 Lf4
6.Sf3 Ke6 7.Kc6 Lg3 8.Sd4 Ke5 9.Se2.
3.Lg7!! d5
3...Le5 4.Sd4 Kd6 5.Lf8#.
4.Sd4! Kd6
4...Kf7 5.ed5 Kg7 6.Se6.
5.e5!! Le5
5...Kc5 6.Se6.
6.Lf8# 1:0.
Kopaev N.
Shakhmaty v SSSR 1950
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1.Sdc2 Sc2 2.Sc2 Kc3 3.Sa3 c6 4.Kg7
Kb3 5.Sb1 Kc2 6.Kf6 Kb1 7.Ke5 c5
8.Kd5 Kc2 9.Kc4!
Materialism was wrong here - 9.Kc5? Kd3
10.Kd5 Ke3. 1:0.
Kopaev N.
Shakhmaty v SSSR 1952
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1.Kd6! Kf6
1...Kg6 2.Ta1!; 1...Kf8 2.Kd7 Kg8 3.Kc7!
Te8 4.Kd7 Tb8 5.Ta1 Tb7 6.Kc6 Tb8
7.Kc7 Te8 8.Kd7 Tb8 9.Tg1 Kh7 10.e7
Tb7 11.Kd6 Tb8 12.Te1 Te8 13.Kd7.
2.Kd7! Kg7 3.Ke7!!
It is the most fantastic triangle manoeuvre
in chess.
3...Tb1
Now Black has to leave the last rank,
control of which is crucial in this type of
ends. 3...Tc8 4.Ta1 Tc7 5.Kd6 Tb7 6.e7
Kf7 (6...Tb8 7.Kc7 Th8 8.Kd7 Kf7 9.Tf1)
7.Tf1 Ke8 8.Tf8#. 4.Ta8 Tb7 5.Kd6 Tb6
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1...Ta1 2.Tb7!
It looks that it was possible to chose
another winning way: 2.Tc7 Ta6 3.Tc6
Ta7 4.Tb6 Kf7 5.Tb1 Ke8 6.Tb8 Kf7
7.Tc8 Ta2 8.Kd7 Ta7 9.Tc7 Ta8 10.d6 Tb8
11.Tc8 Tb1 12.Kc7 Tc1 13.Kd8 Th1
14.d7+-.
2...Ta6 3.Kc5 Ta5 4.Kc6 Ta6 5.Tb6 Ta7
6.Tb8! Ta6 7.Kb5 Td6 8.Kc5!
8.Tb6 Ke5.
8...Td7 9.Kc6 Ta7 10.d6 1:0.
Kopaev N.
Shakhmaty v SSSR 1951
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Kopaev tried to make more versions of
famous Emmanuel Lasker study.
1.Tf5!
1.Th8? Td3 2.Kc7 Tc3 3.Kd8 Tc2 4.Ke7
Te2 5.Kd6 Td2 6.Kc7 Tc2 7.Kb7 Td2
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It is one the last Kopaevs study.
1.d7 Td4 2.Ke7 g2 3.Tg5 Te4 4.Kd6 Td4
5.Kc6 Tc4 6.Kd5 Tc2 7.d8D Td2 8.Kc6
Td8 9.Kc7
Simple but very elegant piece! 1:0.
Kopajev N.
Shakhmaty v SSSR 1946
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1.Td5!! Kc6 2.Th5 Kd7
Easy matters are after 2...b5 3.Ke7 Te1
4.Kf6 Tf1 5.Tf5.
3.Th8
FIDE Surveys Adrian Mikhalchishin
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1.Ta4 Ta1 2.Ta5!
Incredibly difficult move. At the beginning
it is not clear why.
2...Kb6
2...a2 3.Tc5 Kd6 4.Tc2 Kd5 5.Tg2 Kd6
6.Kg8.
3.Tf5 Te1 4.Tf2!
Preventive move.
4...Kb5 5.Kg8 Tg1 6.Kh7 Th1 7.Kg7 Tg1
8.Kf6 1:0.
Kopaev N.
Shakhmaty v SSSR 1953
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One the remarkable endgame studies.
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Analize of this endgame appeared to be
competition between two greats gurus of
Rook ends Cheron and Kopaev.
73...Th8
In the game Black lost easily 73...Th4
74.Kd5 Th8 75.e4 Td8 76.Ke5 Te8 77.Kf5
Tf8 78.Kg6 Te8 79.Tc4 Kb6 80.Kf7 Kb5
81.Td4 Th8 82.e5 Kc5 83.Td1 Th7 84.Kg6
Th2 85.e6 Te2 86.Kf7 Kc6 87.e7 Tf2
88.Ke8 Kc7 89.Tc1 1:0.
74.Kf5 Tf8
74...Kb6 75.e4+-.
75.Kg5 Te8 76.Tc3 Kb6 77.Kf5 Tf8
78.Ke6 Te8 79.Kd6!
The most interesting moment is here Smyslov and Levenfis wrote that White
wins according to Averbach! 79.Kd7 Te5!!
(Cheron) 80.Tc6 Kb7 81.Te6 Td5 82.Ke7
Kc7 83.e4 Th5 84.e5 Th7 85.Kf8 Th5=.
79...Kb5
79...Kb7 80.Kd7 Te5 81.Tb3 Ka6 82.Kd6
Te8 83.Kd5 Td8 84.Kc6+-. White wins
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82.Ke7+(Kopaev) 82.Ke6 Kc6 83.e4 Te8 84.Kf6
Tf8 85.Ke7 Tf4! Classical sticking
manoeuvre 86.Te6 Kc5 87.Kd7 (87.e5
Tf5=) 87...Tf7 88.Ke8 Ta7=.
82...Td3!=
This is sticking of Cheron.
83.Te6 Kc5 84.e4
Not possible to win after 84.Kf6 Td8
85.Kf5 Tf8 86.Tf6 Th8 87.e4 Th5 88.Kg4
Th8 89.Kf4 Th4 90.Ke5 Th5 91.Tf5 Th8.
84...Te3=.
Grigorjev
1929
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1.Kf2
It is refutation of the famous Grigorjev
study.
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1...b5! 2.Ke3
Or 2.d4 Kb6 3.Ke3 Kc6 4.Ke4 Kd6 5.d5
Kd7 6.Ke5 Ke7 7.d6 Ke8 (7...Kf7) 8.Ke6
Kd8 9.d7 b4 10.cb4 b5 11.Kd5 Kd7
12.Kc5 Kc7 13.Kb5 Kb7.
2...b4! 3.cb4 Kb5 4.d4 Kb4 5.Ke4 Kb5!
6.Kd5
Or 6.Ke5 Kc6 7.Ke6 Kc7 8.Ke7 Kc6 draw.
6...Ka4! 7.Kc5 b5 8.d5 b4 9.d6 b3 10.d7
b2 11.d8D b1D 12.Da8 Kb3
and King connects with his Queen - .
Cheron (1926), Kopaev (1958)
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1.Kc3 Tc8 2.Kb4 Td8 3.Kc5 Tc8 4.Kd6
Td8 5.Ke6!
5.Ke7 Td5! (Kopaevs move loses: 5...Td4
6.Tf6 Kg7 (6...Kg5 7.Td6 Ta4 8.Ke6 Kf4
9.d4 Ta8 10.d5 Te8 11.Kd7 Ke5 12.Te6)
7.Td6 Tf4 8.d4 Te4 9.Kd7 Kf7 10.d5 Td4
11.Kc7 Td1 12.Td8) 6.Ke6 (6.Tf6 Kg7
7.Td6 Te5 8.Kd7 Kf7 9.d4 Ta5 10.d5 Ta7
11.Kc8 Ta5) 6...Td8 7.Tg3 Kh5 8.Kf5 Kh4
9.Te3 Tf8 10.Ke5 Te8 11.Kd4 Td8 12.Kc5
Tc8 13.Kd6 Td8 14.Ke7 Td5 15.Ke6 Td8
16.Te4 Kg3 17.d4 Kf3 18.Th4 Kg3, with
constant attack of the Rook. 5...Kg5 6.Tf5
Kg6
6...Kg4? 7.Td5 Te8 8.Kd7 Ta8 9.d4 Kf4
10.Th5 Kg4 11.Te5+-.
7.Td5 Te8 8.Kd7 Te3!!
This move was found by Cheron in 1954,
when he changed and reviewed his analyse
from 1926 . 8...Ta8 9.d4 Kf6 10.Tc5 Ta7
11.Tc7 (11.Kd6 Ta8 12.d5 Td8 13.Kc7
Ke7=) 11...Ta4 (11...Ta5 12.Kd6 Ta6
13.Tc6+-) 12.d5 (12.Tc6 Kf5 13.d5 Ke5
14.d6 Kd5=) 12...Ke5 13.d6 Kd5 14.Tb7+9.d4 Kf6 10.Th5
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Kopaev and his friend, famous trainer,
founder of the Lviv chess school Alexei
Sokolsky, lived 200 km from each other
and tried to arrange matches of their city
clubs twice a year to be able to meet and to
analyse. They played both correspondence
chess and were winners of the medals on
the First Soviet Championship in 1947,
plus had time to create some studies. 1.Ke2
b3 2.Kd3 Ka2!
Or 2...Kb1 3.Kc4 b2 4.Kb3 d3 5.Th7 Ka1
6.Ta7 Kb1 7.Ta2.
3.Kc4! b2 4.Ta7 Kb1 5.Kb3 d3 6.Ta2 d2
7.Tb2 Kc1 8.Tc2! Kd1 9.Kc3 1:0.
Kopaev N.
Shakhmaty v SSSR 1953
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Kopaev was the greatest specialist in the
World in not so rare area of ends - ROOK
against PAWNS. He improved practically
all book of the famous specialist Ilia
Maizelis. Kopaevs work in this area was
respected so much, that one special
manoeuvre bears his name.
1.Tg3 Kc2 2.Tg4!
Wrong is check 2.Tg2? Kb3 3.Tg3 c3
4.Kd7 Ka4.
2...Kc3 3.Tg3! Kb2 4.Tg4! Kb3 5.Kd7!
c3 6.Kc6 c2 7.Kb5! c1D 8.Tb4 Ka3 9.Ta4
Kb3 10.Tb4 .
Maizelis (1950), Kopaev (1958)
1958
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1...Td4!!
Check on the first move looks strange, but
main idea is that King attacks more
dangerous pawn and Rook attacks another
one. This is Kopaev manoeuvre. 1...Td1
2.g6 Te1 3.Kf4 Kd5 (3...Tf1 4.Ke5 Te1
5.Kd6 Tg1 6.g7 Kd4 7.Kc6 Kc4 8.Kd7
FIDE Surveys Adrian Mikhalchishin
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It is the most complicated human analysis
without any engine! There were real
heroes! If Black is on the move 1...Kd6
2.Td6 Kf5 3.Td5 Kf4 4.Td8 and win is
easy. But how to give back to opponent the
move? This process now is extremely
complicated and interesting.
1.Ke3 Ke5 2.Te8! Kf5
2...Kd6 3.Kd4 Kd7 4.Te5 Kc6 5.Tf5;
2...Kf6 3.Kf2 Kf5 4.Kg3.
3.Kf2!
Does not work 3.Kd4? Kg4 4.Td8 (4.Tf8
Kg3 5.Ke3 Kg2! 6.Tg8 Kf1 7.Tg5 d4
8.Kd4 Ke2) 4...f2 5.Tf8 Kg3 6.Ke3 d4
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8.Kh2!
It seems mistakenly that winning is 8.Kg4?
Kg7! 9.Te5 f2 10.Tg5 Kh6 11.Th5 Kg6
12.Th1 e3 13.Kf3 d4 14.Ke2 Kf5 and draw
position appears.
8...Kf5 9.Td8!
After 9.Kh3 Kf4 10.Td8 e3 11.Tf8 Ke4
12.Kg3 f2 13.Kg2 d4 14.Kf1 d3 15.Td8 d2
16.Ke2 Kf4 17.Tf8 Kg3 leads to draw - it
is Beliavskys variation from encyklopedia.
9...Ke6
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Pawns tries are losing 9...e3 10.Td5 Ke4
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Let us examine few modern examples as
lessons of Kopaev are remembered.
52...Tb2??=
In such cases material is not so important
as Kings activity. 52...Ke7! 53.b5 (53.Kc7
Tb2 54.b5 Tb4 55.b6 Tc4 56.Kb8 Kd7
57.b7 Tb4 58.h4 Th4+) 53...Kd8 54.b6
(54.Kb7 Tb2 55.b6 Kd7 56.h4 Tc2 57.h5
Tc4 58.h6 Tc8 59.Ka7 Th8 60.b7 Kc7
61.h7 Tf8+) 54...Kc8 55.b4 Tg6 56.Kb5
Kb7 57.c5 Tf6 58.h4 Tf1! 59.Ka5 Kc6!!
60.b5 Kc5 61.b7 Tf8+.
53.b5 Ke7??+Now King has to fight the back pawn of
White chain as Rook controls the most
dangerous one. 53...Ke5=.
54.b6 Ke6!
54...Kd8?? 55.b7+-.
55.b7 Ke5 56.h4 Kd4 57.c5??=
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51...Kg5??
To keep draw it was necessary to control
central part with the King 51...Ke5=.
52.Td4 Kf5 53.c5 Ke5 54.Th4??
Now White miss the chance to cut
opponents King 54.Td8 Kf4 (54...f2
55.Ke2+-) 55.c6 Kg3 56.c7 Kf2 57.Te8+-.
54...Kd5 55.c6 Kc6 56.Th3 f2 57.Th1
Kd5 58.Ke2 Kd4 59.Ta1 Ke4 .
Polgar J. : Short N.
Novgorod 1996
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68.c4??
In such cases it is most important to
activate own King! 68.Kb5 Tb7 69.Kc6!=.
68...Tb7 69.c5 Kf4 70.c6 Tb1 71.Ka5
Kf5!
71...Ke4?? 72.c7 Tc1 73.Kb6 Kd5
74.Kb7=.
72.c7 Tc1 73.Kb6 Ke6 0:1.
48...Kf4?
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66.f5??
66.Kg3 Lead to exact draw theoretical
position!
66...Kh7 67.Kh5
Or 67.Kf4 Tg1 68.f6 Kg6.
67...Th1 68.Kg4 Tf1 69.f6 Kg6 0:1.
Crouch C. : McShane L.
England 1999
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75.Kb2 Tg3 76.Kc2
Few young guys tried 76.Ka2?? Tc3
77.Kb2 Kb4 78.a5 Tc5 79.b6 Ka5 80.b7
Tb5 81.Kc3 Ka6 82.Kc4 Tb1 83.Kc5 Ka7
84.Kd6 Kb8 and Black King is just in
time!
76...Tg4
Not possible 76...Ta3 77.c7.
77.Kb3 Tb4 78.Kc3 Tb1 79.Kc2 Tf1
80.Kb3??
It was not difficult to keep the draw
80.Kb2.
80...Ta1 81.Kc4 Ta4 82.Kc5 Ta1 83.c7
Tc1 84.Kd6 Kb6 0:1.
FIDE Surveys Adrian Mikhalchishin