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Knight vs Two pawns

Position given to me by GM Kiriakov. White to move. Interestingly white has a win!! How?? I tried for long time before GM gave me the solution.
Posted by Harish Srinivasan at 2/23/2007 01:01:00 AM
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2007 at 3:12 PM

    The way to win is bring the white king to f2, and with the proper tempi, deliver checkmate with the knight via g1-e2-g3 by forcing black to advance his h pawn to h2, blocking in the K! - Roy

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  2. JohnDFebruary 23, 2007 at 6:04 PM

    that is amazing, we must go over this at club sometime-jd

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  3. Harish SrinivasanFebruary 23, 2007 at 6:08 PM

    Roy- Yes thats the right strategy. But the execution is a lot difficult than that. We can go over at the club for sure.

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  4. procykFebruary 23, 2007 at 11:07 PM

    Hi! I just posted 2 variation and it is not there. Second time happend to me. Will do it again, but before I post I guess I should copy just in case and then send.

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  5. procykFebruary 23, 2007 at 11:30 PM

    It seems there are 2 basic variation. Losing tempo or not.
    a)
    1.Kg3 h6 2.Kf2 f6 3.Kf1 h5 4.Kf2 f5 5.Kf1 h4 6.Kf2 f4 7.Kf1 h3 8.Nd2 f3 9.Ne4 f2 10.Nf2 Kh2 11.Ne4 Kh1 12.Kf2 Kh2 13.Nd2 Kh1 14.Nf1 h2 15.Ng3 mate
    b)
    1.Kg3 h5 2.Kf2 f6 3.Kf1 h4 4.Kf2 f5 5.Kf1 h3 6.Kf2 f4 7.Kf1 h2 8.Ng4 f3 9.Ne4 f2 10.Ng3 mate

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  6. procykFebruary 24, 2007 at 12:59 AM

    I put it first time on different place, and those variations run a litle different.
    a)
    1.Kg3 h6 2.Kf2 f6 3. Kf1 h5 4. Kf2 f5 5.Kf1 h4 6.Kf2 f4 7. Kf1 h3 8.Nd2 f3 9.Ne4 f2 10.K:f2 Kh2 11.Nd2 Kh1 12.Nf1 h2 13.Ng3 mate

    b)Kg3 h5 2.Kf2 f6 3. Kf1 f5 4. Kf2 f4 5.Kf1 h4 6.Kf2 h3 7. Kf1 h2 8.Nd2 f3 9.Ne4 f2 10.Kg3 mate.

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