How to turn a win into a draw

[Site "?"]

[Date "2019.09.30"]

[Round "?"]

[White "KQ"]

[Black "K"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[Annotator "1a Win to draw"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "3k4/8/2Q5/5K2/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1"]

[PlyCount "1"]

[EventDate "2019.??.??"]



1. Ke6 $4 $11 (1. Qb7 $1) 1/2-1/2



ate "1960.??.??"]



1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. exd6 cxd6 6. Nc3 g6 7. Bd3 Bg7 8.

Nge2 Nc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. O-O e5 11. d5 Ne7 12. b3 Nd7 13. Ne4 Nf5 14. Bg5 f6 15.

Bd2 Nc5 16. Nxc5 dxc5 {[#] White has a passed pawn. Usually this is an endgame

theme, but here we see it throughout a middlegame with Queens.} 17. Bxf5 Bxf5

18. f4 exf4 19. Nxf4 Qd6 {[#] not the best blockader, and the other potential

blockaders are quickly exchanged.} 20. Nh5 {It's not a very good bishop, but

once it is exchanged White's own dark-squared bishop will have no opposition

in its prosecution of the advance of the d-pawn} Rae8 21. Nxg7 Kxg7 22. Bf4 Qd7

23. Qd2 Rf7 24. Bh6+ Kg8 25. Rae1 Rfe7 26. Rxe7 Qxe7 27. h3 Qe4 28. Qf2 Qe7 29.

g4 Bd3 30. Rd1 Be4 31. d6 Qe5 32. Bf4 Qc3 33. d7 Rd8 34. Qe2 Qf3 (34... Qxh3

35. Qxe4 Qxg4+ 36. Kf2 {( threat Qe8+ )}) 35. Qxf3 Bxf3 36. Bc7 {[#] simple as

t[Event "Wch-[Event "?"]

[Event "Wch-blitz"]

[Site "Saint John"]

[Date "1988.??.??"]

[Round "3"]

[White "Garry Kasparov"]

[Black "Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[ECO "A29"]

[WhiteElo "2750"]

[BlackElo "2595"]

[Annotator "1b Win to draw"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "8/8/6K1/1k1B4/3Q4/8/8/8 b - - 0 77"]

[PlyCount "2"]

[EventDate "1988.??.??"]



77... Ka6 {[#]} 78. Qc5 1/2-1/2



[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2019.09.30"]

[Round "?"]

[White "KP"]

[Black "K"]

[Result "*"]

[Annotator "1c Win->Draw, Draw->Loss"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "8/3k4/8/3KP3/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 9"]

[PlyCount "0"]

[EventDate "2019.??.??"]



 *



[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2019.09.30"]

[Round "?"]

[White "KP"]

[Black "K"]

[Result "*"]

[Annotator "1d Win->Draw, Draw->Loss"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "4k3/8/8/8/8/8/4P3/4K3 w - - 0 1"]

[PlyCount "27"]

[EventDate "2019.??.??"]



1. Kd2 (1. e4 $4 $11 {Stockfish 8 64:} Kd7 2. Kd2 Kd6 3. Kd3 Ke5 4. Ke3 Ke6 5.

Kd4 Kd6 6. e5+ Ke6 7. Ke4 Ke7 8. Kd5 Kd7 9. e6+ Ke7 10. Ke5 {[#]} Ke8 (10...

Kd8 $4 11. Kd6 Ke8 12. e7 Kf7 13. Kd7 Kf6 14. e8=Q) 11. Kd6 Kd8 12. e7+ Ke8 13.

Ke6 $11) 1... Ke7 2. Kd3 Kd6 {Stockfish 8 64:} 3. Ke4 Ke6 4. e3 Kf6 5. Kd5 Ke7

6. Ke5 Kf7 7. Kd6 Ke8 8. e4 Kd8 9. e5 {Stockfish 8 64:} Ke8 10. Ke6 Kd8 11. Kf7

Kd7 12. e6+ Kc6 13. e7 Kd5 14. e8=Q *



[Event "15th DSB Kongress (Nuremberg)"]

[Site "Nuremberg GER"]

[Date "1906.08.04"]

[Round "11"]

[White "Carl Schlechter"]

[Black "Heinrich Wolf"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[ECO "D15"]

[Annotator "1e Win to draw"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "8/8/8/8/1P4p1/r3k1P1/7P/5RK1 w - - 0 53"]

[PlyCount "7"]

[EventDate "1906.07.23"]



53. Rb1 Kf3 {[#]} 54. b5 Re3 55. b6 Re1+ 56. Rxe1 1/2-1/2



[Event "Biel"]

[Site "Biel SUI"]

[Date "1987.07.??"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Murray Chandler"]

[Black "Zsuzsa Polgar"]

[Result "*"]

[ECO "B33"]

[Annotator "1f Win->Draw"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "6n1/6k1/8/5KP1/4B3/8/7P/8 w - - 0 53"]

[PlyCount "8"]

[EventDate "1987.??.??"]



53. Ke6 Nh6 $5 {[#]} 54. gxh6+ $4 (54. h4 $1) 54... Kh8 (54... Kxh6 55. Kf7 Kg5

56. Kg7 Kh4 57. Bf5 Kg5 58. Bc8 Kh4 59. h3 Kg5 60. Kh7 Kf4 61. h4 Ke5 62. h5

Kf6 63. h6 Kf7 64. Be6+ Kxe6 65. Kg8) 55. Bd5 Kh7 56. Kf7 Kh8 *



[Event "IBM Amsterdam"]

[Site "Amsterdam NED"]

[Date "1972.06.09"]

[Round "9"]

[White "Ljubomir Ljubojevic"]

[Black "Walter Shawn Browne"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[ECO "B95"]

[Annotator "1g Win-> draw"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "8/5p2/2k5/r7/1K6/1P6/8/8 w - - 0 39"]

[PlyCount "5"]

[EventDate "1972.05.30"]



39. Kxa5 {[#]} f5 (39... Kd5) 40. Kb4 f4 41. Kc4 1/2-1/2



[Event "Ostend"]

[Site "Ostend BEL"]

[Date "1905.06.19"]

[Round "6"]

[White "Mikhail Chigorin"]

[Black "Siegbert Tarrasch"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "C00"]

[Annotator "2b Draw->loss"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "8/6pp/5p2/5PP1/3k1K1P/8/8/8 b - - 0 49"]

[PlyCount "7"]

[EventDate "1905.06.12"]



49... Kd5 {[#]} 50. gxf6 $4 (50. Kg4 Ke4 51. g6 hxg6 (51... h5+ 52. Kxh5 Kxf5

$11) 52. fxg6 f5+ 53. Kg5 f4 54. h5 $11) 50... gxf6 51. Kg4 Ke4 52. Kh3 Kf4 0-1

How to turn a draw into a loss

[Event "Devon vs. Cornwall"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "1997.11.08"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Bartlett, Simon"]

[Black "Regis, David"]

[Result "*"]

[ECO "C64"]

[Annotator "2d Draw to loss"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "8/8/4R3/5p2/5k2/8/1r6/5K2 b - - 0 62"]

[PlyCount "2"]

[EventDate "1997.??.??"]



62... Kf3 {[#]} 63. Re1 $4 {' ( draw claimed; draw agreed ) '} (63. Kg1 $1 f4)

(63. Ke1 $2 f4) (63. Re1 f4 64. Ra1 (64. Kg1 Kg3 65. Rc1 (65. Kf1 Rh2 66. Re8

Rh1+ 67. Ke2 f3+ 68. Kd3 Rd1+ 69. Kc2 f2) 65... f3 66. Ra1 Rg2+ 67. Kh1 Rh2+

68. Kg1 f2+) 64... Kg3 65. Ra8 (65. Kg1 f3 66. Rc1 (66. Kf1 Rh2) 66... Rg2+ 67.

Kf1 Rh2) 65... Rb1+ 66. Ke2 f3+ 67. Ke3 Re1+ 68. Kd2 f2) *

How to turn a win into a loss

[Event "Linares"]

[Site "Linares ESP"]

[Date "1992.02.24"]

[Round "2"]

[White "Nigel Short"]

[Black "Alexander Beliavsky"]

[Result "*"]

[ECO "C48"]

[Annotator "3a Win->Loss"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "4nk2/1b3p2/8/1P2K1p1/7p/3BN2P/6P1/8 w - - 0 57"]

[PlyCount "4"]

[EventDate "1992.02.23"]



57. Nd5 {[#]} f6+ 58. Ke6 $4 (58. Nxf6 Bxg2 59. b6 Bb7 60. Nxe8 Kxe8 61. Be4

Ba6 62. Kf5) 58... Bc8# *



[Event "URS Team Ch"]

[Site "Riga LAT"]

[Date "1954.??.??"]

[Round "1"]

[White "Batuev, Andrey M"]

[Black "Simagin, Vladimir"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "B95"]

[WhiteElo "2613"]

[BlackElo "2530"]

[Annotator "3b Win to loss"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "5Q2/8/8/8/4q3/4p3/1K6/4k3 w - - 0 84"]

[PlyCount "7"]

[EventDate "1954.??.??"]



84. Qg7 $18 {[#]} e2 $4 (84... Kf2 $18) 85. Qg1+ Kd2 86. Qc1+ Kd3 87. Qc3# 1-0

Two players show how to make wins and draws into losses

[Event "?"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2019.09.30"]

[Round "?"]

[White "KPP"]

[Black "KPPP"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[WhiteElo "1450"]

[BlackElo "1700"]

[Annotator "4 Broke the resultometer"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "8/8/2p5/p1pk4/P7/1P1K4/8/8 b - - 0 1"]

[PlyCount "31"]

[EventDate "2019.??.??"]



{https://raskerino.wordpress.com/2018/09/28/a-silly-endgame/} 1... Kd6 $2 (1...

Ke5 $5 2. Kc4 Kd6) (1... Ke6 $5 2. Kc4 Kd6) (1... c4+ $3 2. bxc4+ Ke5 3. Ke3 c5

4. Kd3 Kf4 5. Kd2 Ke4 6. Kc3 Ke3 7. Kc2 Kd4 8. Kb3 Kd3 9. Kb2 Kxc4 10. Ka3 Kc3

11. Ka2 c4 12. Ka3 Kd2) 2. Ke3 $2 Kd5 3. Kd3 Kd6 $2 4. Kc4 Kc7 $6 (4... Kd7 5.

Kxc5 Kc7) 5. Kxc5 Kd7 $4 6. Kb6 Kc8 7. Kxc6 Kb8 8. Kb6 Ka8 9. Kxa5 Kb8 10. Kb6

Ka8 11. a5 Kb8 12. b4 Ka8 13. b5 Kb8 14. a6 Ka8 15. Kc6 Ka7 16. b6+ Ka8 {White

reached for the a pawn, realized 15.a7 was stalemate and thus picked up the

king to play 15.Kc7 instead, then realized that was stalemate and ran out of

time in confusion ( drawing the game as black has insufficient mating material

) . [Event "?"]} (16... Kxa6 17. Kc7) (16... Ka8 17. a7 $4 $11 (17. Kc7 $4 $11)

(17. b7+ Kb8 (17... Ka7 18. Kc7 Kxa6 19. b8=Q) 18. a7+ Kxa7 19. Kc7 Ka6 20.

b8=Q)) 1/2-1/2




[Event "Paris"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "1934.??.??"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Stahlberg"]

[Black "Tartakower"]

[Result "*"]

[Annotator "3c Win->Loss"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "8/pp4p1/4k1P1/3p4/3P4/2P5/4K2P/8 w - - 0 1"]

[PlyCount "19"]



1. c4 dxc4 (1... Kf6 2. cxd5 Kxg6 $19) 2. h4 a5 (2... Kf6 3. h5 Kg5 4. d5 $18)

3. h5 a4 4. Kd2 (4. h6 gxh6 5. d5+ Kf6 6. d6 a3 7. d7 Ke7 8. g7) 4... b5 5. d5+

Kd7 6. h6 a3 7. Kc2 b4 8. hxg7 b3+ 9. Kb1 c3 10. g8=Q *



[Event "World Cup"]

[Site "Tromso NOR"]

[Date "2013.08.16"]

[Round "2.3"]

[White "Laurent Fressinet"]

[Black "Vladimir Malakhov"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "D45"]

[WhiteElo "2708"]

[BlackElo "2707"]

[Annotator "3d Win->Loss"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "8/1r6/8/6R1/3k1Pp1/6P1/1K6/8 w - - 0 58"]

[PlyCount "18"]

[EventDate "2013.08.11"]



58. Kc2 Rc7+ 59. Kb3 $4 (59. Kb2) 59... Rc3+ 60. Kb4 Rxg3 61. Rg8 Ke4 62. Kc4

Rg2 63. Re8+ Kxf4 64. Kd3 Ra2 65. Rf8+ Kg3 66. Ke3 Kg2 0-1

How to arrange an accident

Know or find a position you want to steer for

Keep a straight face!

[Event "exeter vs. teignmouth"]

[Site "exeter vs. teignmouth"]

[Date "1994.??.??"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Regis, David"]

[Black "Walker, John"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[ECO "C33"]

[Annotator "DrDave"]

[SetUp "1"]

[FEN "8/pR3ppp/4k3/1P6/6P1/r6P/6K1/8 b - - 0 33"]

[PlyCount "36"]

[EventDate "1994.??.??"]



33... Kf6 34. b6 {!} axb6 35. Rxb6+ Kg5 36. Rb5+ Kg6 37. Rc5 h6 38. Rb5 f6 39.

Rc5 Re3 40. Rc7 Re5 41. Kg3 h5 42. Rc3 hxg4 {?} 43. hxg4 Kg5 44. Ra3 g6 45. Rb3

Re4 46. Rb5+ f5 {?} (46... Re5 47. Rb4) 47. gxf5 gxf5 48. Rb8 Re3+ 49. Kf2 Ra3

50. Rb4 f4 51. Rb8 {the basic draw: Philidor's position Clearly White has been

steering for this since move 33!} 1/2-1/2