Weekly Endgame Study (161)
Every week we present you an endgame study - this week selected from the Amber tournament. Amazingly, Karjakin could have saved the rook ending in his blindfold game against Grischuk today. Good luck solving!
White to play and drawI (Peter Doggers) was filming this game in the playing hall when I suddenly saw an interesting idea in this position. After Karjakin lost, I walked to the analysis room, where GMs such as Aronian, Nunn, Caruana and Ljubojevic were watching and kibitzing via TV screens. I asked Ljubo: "Couldn't Karjakin pin the pawn somewhere and perhaps draw this?" "No," he said, "believe me, this is always lost." I decided to check this with engine + tablebase, and indeed, the position turned out to be draw. I put up the position on one of the chess boards and showed it to Ljubo and the others, and managed to surprise them - my fifteen seconds of Amber fame!? ;-) Can you find it too?Next week the solution.
Solution last week
V. Bunka 1999 Game viewer by ChessTempo
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