Ernesto Inarkiev vs Viktor Laznicka (2013)

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Ernesto Inarkiev vs Viktor Laznicka
Karpov Poikovsky (2013), Poikovsky RUS, rd 6, Sep-03
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange. Positional Variation (D35) · 1-0

White to move.

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Sep-03-13		DrAttitude: 47....Bxf6 48.Nc6 : (1) then the Black a7 pawn is captured (2) then Nb5 (3)then the White a6 pawn wins the game with queening or wins the Black bishop. It is not often when you see a Knight beat a Bishop in an endgame that is "open". <Saidy vs Fischer, 1964> Dr. Anthony Saidy vs Robert James Fischer this a great endgame because of the high pressure nature of the event. Fischer wins again.

Sep-03-13		Jigsaw42: What a finish!

Sep-04-13		Calar: <DrAttitude> The key element here is that most of Black's pawns (a7 and c5) are fixed on dark squares, the same color Black's bishop uses. That means bishop is limited only to defensive tasks: since there are no white pawns he could attack, all he can do is try to defend its own pawns while White knight jumps around and attacks them. That - having the pawns on the squares on the same color - is what usually defines <bad> bishop. Imagine that, in final position, Black's bishop is on e4 instead of e5. In that case, Black would even be better - he would have simply played Bd3, munched both of White's queenside pawns and remained a pawn up.

Mar-19-15		saintdufus: I respectfully disagree with the analysis of Calar above. Black's problem isn't that his pawns are on the same-colored squares as his bishop--indeed, that's usually a plus in the endgame (much more so than the middlegame), because it means the bishop can protect his pawns. The real problem for Black (as Calar correctly noted) is that the White pawns, not the Black ones, are on the wrong color (i.e. the Black bishop can't attack them). This is why one of the first things you should do when you reach a bishop endgame (generally speaking) is put your pawns on the opposite-colored squares of the enemy bishop.

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