Good knight vs. bad bishop - The whole story in one game (4)
We started with the question, how GM Andersson managed to reach such a favourable endgame with a superknight against a bad bishop
And I told you that I didn´t happen by chance, but through hard work.
In the previous three posts you saw that Andersson very early took the initiative in an English hedgehog opening. He controlled black counterplay opportunities in center and on queenside, and advanced with his pawns on kingside.
Black was able to reduce the kingside pressure through piece exchanges, but remained with a weakness on d6.
White wasn`t able to break through and so he created a second weakness: The point f7.
And finally reached following position:
The dominance of white pieces is evidently. But how should he transform it into a winning advantage?
Concretely spoken, it is the question between 38. g6 or 38. h6
If you ask the chess programs, they prefer here 38. h6 with following winning idea:
GM Andersson decided for the other variation with 38.g6
It leads directly to our endgame position mentioned at the beginning
Now we have seen ( in 4 posts) how Andersson reached that favourable endgame position. And next time we shall have a closer look at this endgame.
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