Nº26 Alexey Gasparyan

Draw

Section B.2.

Alexey Gasparyan (Armenia)

wKg7,Qa3,Nc5,Bc6,Ph6/bKf2,Nb5,c4,Bc7,Rd6,Pc2,d5,g3

1.Qc1!
False track N1 : 1.Sd3+?1 Ke3 2.Qc1 K*d3! 3.B*b5 Rb6! 4.Ba4 Be5+! 5.Kg8 Rb8+ 6.Kf7 Rb2 -+.

1…Sd4!
Or 1…R*c6 2.Q*c2+ Ke3 3.Qd3+ Kf4 4.Q*d5 Be5+ 5.Kh7 Sd4 6.Q*c4 etc.=. And now not 2.h7?! Rd8! 3.Ba4 (3.h8Q? Be5+ 4.Kf7 B*h8 5.Sd3+ Kf3! etc.-+) 3…Se5! 4.Qf4+ (4.Sb7?! Sf5+! -+) 4…Sdf3 5.Qc1!? g2 6.Sd3+ S*d3 7.Q*c2 Ke3 8.Q*g2 Be5+ 9.Kf7 Rh8! -+.

2.Sd3+! Ke2
2…Kf3? 3.h7 draws

3.Sf4+
Not 3.h7?! Rd8 4.B*d5 K*d3 5.Qf1+ Kd2 6.B*c4 Se6+! -+;
or 3.Sb4?! g2! etc.-+.

3…Kf3! 4.B*d5+! and after 4…R*d5 5.S*d5 g2 6.S*c7 Se3 escapes 7.Se6! S*e6+ 8.Kf6 =, for example: 8…Sd4 9.h7! Se2 10.Q*c2 S*c2 11.h8Q g1Q 12.Qh5+ Kf2 13.Qf5+ Ke1 14.Q*c2 =.

So 4…Kg4!
and not 5.Be6+? (false track N2) S*e6!! (not 5…R*e6? 6.S*e6 S*e6 7.Kf6 Sd4 8.Qg5+ Kf3 9.Qd5+ Ke3 10.Q*c4 g2 etc.-+) 6.S*e6 R*e6 7.Q*c2 Be5+ 8.Kf7 Sf6+ 9.Kg8 Rf4! -+.

5.B*c4! Rd7+ 6.Kf6!
False track N3: 6.Kg6? B*f4 7.Be6+ (7.Be2+??) S*e6 8.Q*c2 Sf8+! 9.Kf6 Bg5+ 10.Ke5 Re7+ 11.Kd5 Bf4! -+.

6…B*f4 . And now 7.Be6+!
But not false track N4: 7.Be2+? S*e2 8.Q*c2 Kf3 9.Qc6 Kf2 10.Q*d7 g2 11.Qa7 Be3! -+.

7…B*e6 8.Q*c2 Rd6 9.Qf5+!
9.Qe2+?! Kh4 10.Qg2 B*h6 -+.

9…Kf3
or Kh4 10.Ke7 g2 11.h7 =.

10.Qh5+! Kf2(e3) 11.h7! with:

A) 11…Sg5+! 12.Kf5!
12.Kg7? Rd7+ -+.

12…S*h7 13.Qf3+! Kg1
13…K*f3 – stalemate

14.K*f4 =.

B) 11…Sf8+! 12.Kg7! S*h7
or 12…Sg6 13.h8Q! S*h8 14.Qc5+ =

13.Qc5+ Kf3 14.Qh5+ – positional draw , or 14…Ke3 15.Qc5+ Ke4 16.Qc4+ Kf3 17.Qf1+ Kg4 18.Qe2+ – perp.check DRAW.