Hilmar Ebert

Sonderlösungsturnier

Andernach 1988 - Lösung.

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feenschach 88 S. 384 (# Rundbrief 19. V. 1988) VII-IX 1988

#16 in 64 Chess Compositions

Hilmar Ebert

feenschach IV-V 1988, Sonderlösungsturnier: Andernach, 13.-14.5.1988

Dedicated to Garry Kasparov's 50^th birthday 2013 ("1.Nd5, right? - Nice!")

#6

1.Na2/a4/e2/e4? Kd1!; 1...Kb1?  2.Nd4! Ka1?  3.Kb3(4) ~ 4.Nc3+ short mates in 5.

1.Sd5!! Kd1(!) (1...Kb1? 2.Sd4! ...#5)  2.Kc3!! Ke2(!) (2...Ka1? 3.Kb3 ...#5) 3.Sd4+ Kf1 4.Ke3+ Kg1  5.Sf3+ Kh1  6.Sf2#

- Maximum distance to the mating corner: 5 squares instead of 2 on the wrong edge!
- Mate without the white king: only by the three white knights!

 Plus ornamentation: the 3 knights form, as in the diagram, a line after 3.Nd4+ and after 5.Nf3+ rotated by 90° and 180° compared to the initial position.

 Only one solver, Frank Visbeen from the Netherlands (amid the gathered world elite at the Andernach Solving Tourney), managed to solve it - still without computer assistance...!

    The final position:

Dedication:

 When I played in Kasparov’s fantastic 40‑board simultaneous exhibition in Frankfurt, 2000 – against some quite strong players! – I, of course, also could not beat him, like nobody could! (at the time of his then‑record ELO rating of 2851!) – but at least I was one of the last five players still standing. :-)

 After my for him new second (!) move, he stood at my board for over a minute, and immediately journalists hurried over to me… After his 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Trompowsky Attack I had replied 2…c6(!), with the simple but funny “trap” 3.e3?? Qa5+ when White loses the bishop! LOL!

 After his long thought over his third (!) move, Garry ended all fantasies about a quick piece loss with 3.Bxf6 – but nobody knows what moved the then GOAT to think so long; presumably he had never faced this reply on the board before…

Garry’s signature after the game.

 Later, I found in Wikipedia an actual game with the piece loss(!):

 “2…c6 is an offbeat line in which Black threatens a later …Qb6, forcing White to defend or sacrifice the b‑pawn. White can play the thematic 3.Bxf6 or 3.Nf3, but must avoid 3.e3?? Qa5+, when White resigned (in light of 4…Qxg5) in Djordjević – (Milorad) Kovačević, Bela Crkva 1984—‘the shortest ever loss by a master’ (Graham Burgess, The Quickest Chess Victories of All Time, p. 33)."

16*

Hilmar Ebert

feenschach I-IX 1991

 #9

1.Nac7? stalemate!
1.Ng7? Kd6! (<9#)
1.Nec7! Kd6  2.Kb6 Kd7  3.Kc5 Kc8  4.Kd6 Kb7  5.Ne7!
5... Kb8  6.Kc6 Ka7  7.Nb6 Kb8  8.Nd7+ Ka7 9.Nc8#
5... Ka7  6.Kc6 Kb8  7.Nb6 Ka7  8.Nc8+ Kb8  9.Na6#

 Unexpectedly back into the 'left corner of the gate' – a tough nut to crack!

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Hilmar Ebert (& Bernhard Walter)

Rochade Europa III/1995 S. 44-45
Dedicated to Garry Kasparov!

#13

1.Kc3! Kc1  2.Bg3 Kd1  3.Kd3 Kc1  4.Be5 Kd1 5.Bc3 Kc1  6.Na3 Kd1  7.Nc4 Kc1  8.Bd2+ Kb1  9.Kc3 Ka1  10.Kb3 Kb1  11.Kc2 Ka1  12.Na3+ Ka1  13.Bc3#

 Garry's favorite number (birthday April 13; World champion #13, Garry Kasparov = 13 letters and more!). For the first time, all white moves are dual-free - in all variations!