In the Nakamura-Carlsen game, like the computer at Chessbomb, I am having a difficult time imagining how black gets the bishop to g4 without dropping a pawn. Can someone put this into one of the high power chess engines and post the plan.
I was a little confused as well as the Engines were not given white that big an edge…but what I imagined Blacks plan after BF7 was to play it to h4 then possibly g4 to protect the pawns while marching the king over to gobble the a3 pawn and win the Bishop by pushing the Q side pawns..then leisurely coming back to sheperd in one of the white pawns. When white plays Bg4 to protect both pawns its immune to capture as Black then has f2 and queens. Might be a sketchy rough Idea..but made sense to me. Of course I’m not a great player or anything..but it seemed logical. I hope I see some solid variations and analysis soon…was an interesting ending. I loved the b4 moves instead of Be4..lots of fun stuff to look at in this ending.
Ok, Mike, that makes sense to me now. From h5, the bishop then covers f3 when the king goes through f5. I can’t find a defense for white, now. Funny how the chess engine on chessbomb can’t find that as the first line.
Intending to come e3 and c1 to protect a3, but it won’t matter now:
4. …..Ke4 (g4 immune due to h2) 5. Bg1 Kd3 (g4 still immune!) 6. Kf2
Nothing will hold, this probably the longest. Without 6.Kf2, black can play Ke2 and then play f2 followed by h2 to win the white bishop at some point (see variation at end). Continuing:
6. …..Kc3 and the pawns on the queen side fall.
Back at move 5 in the line above, white can keep the bishop free from g1, but it still won’t hold:
Susan u coulda saved me a drumstick yesterday, oh Susan is this it for “their genius” or do they have more tricks, Um just curious?
In the Nakamura-Carlsen game, like the computer at Chessbomb, I am having a difficult time imagining how black gets the bishop to g4 without dropping a pawn. Can someone put this into one of the high power chess engines and post the plan.
I was a little confused as well as the Engines were not given white that big an edge…but what I imagined Blacks plan after BF7 was to play it to h4 then possibly g4 to protect the pawns while marching the king over to gobble the a3 pawn and win the Bishop by pushing the Q side pawns..then leisurely coming back to sheperd in one of the white pawns. When white plays Bg4 to protect both pawns its immune to capture as Black then has f2 and queens. Might be a sketchy rough Idea..but made sense to me. Of course I’m not a great player or anything..but it seemed logical. I hope I see some solid variations and analysis soon…was an interesting ending. I loved the b4 moves instead of Be4..lots of fun stuff to look at in this ending.
But then again..I might be wholly incorrect..but thats what I was thinking..
Ok, Mike, that makes sense to me now. From h5, the bishop then covers f3 when the king goes through f5. I can’t find a defense for white, now. Funny how the chess engine on chessbomb can’t find that as the first line.
From the final position, it might go like this:
1. Bc7 Bh5
2. Bd6 Kf5
3. Kg3 Bg4 (Ke6 should win, too)
4. Bc5
Intending to come e3 and c1 to protect a3, but it won’t matter now:
4. …..Ke4 (g4 immune due to h2)
5. Bg1 Kd3 (g4 still immune!)
6. Kf2
Nothing will hold, this probably the longest. Without 6.Kf2, black can play Ke2 and then play f2 followed by h2 to win the white bishop at some point (see variation at end). Continuing:
6. …..Kc3 and the pawns on the queen side fall.
Back at move 5 in the line above, white can keep the bishop free from g1, but it still won’t hold:
5. Bf8 Ke3
6. Bc5 Ke2
7. Bd4 f2 (or h2)
8. Bf2 h2
9. Kh2 Kf2 wins.