FIDE SURVEYS – ALEXANDER BELIAVSKY 1

Alexander Beliavsky:

Winning and defending

technique in the queen ending

with an extra pawn

Beliavsky A. : Byrne R.

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68.Kg3 Dc3 69.Kh4 De5

It is not the best move. After 69...Dd3

70.Dg7 (70.g5 De4 71.Kh5 Df3 72.Kg6 Df5

73.Kg7 Dg5 74.Dg5 fg5 75.Kg6 Ke7 76.Kg5

Kf7=) 70...De3 71.Dg6 Ke7 72.Df5 Kf7

Black king keep control over g6 square and

white cannot make progress.

70.Dg6 Ke7 71.Df5 De3 72.Kh5!

As we will see black cannot keep the pawn

f6!

72...Dh3

72...Kf7 73.Dg6 Ke7 74.h4.

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73...Dh4 74.Dc5 Ke8 75.Dc8 Ke7 76.Df5!

Zugzwang:black forced move his queen on

passive position. Otherwise he is loosing

pawn f6. 76...Dh8 77.De4 Kd6 78.Kf7 Dh4

The best chance was 78...Kc5! with idea

bring black king to a3 where it is correctly

placed for the Q endgame with a pawn g.

79.De7 Kc4 80.Df6 Dh7 81.Kf8 Dh3 82.g5

Dc8 83.Kg7 Kb3 84.g6 Ka2.

79.Df5

Now white anyway is winning f6 pawn. And

black king has to stay in the wrong part of

the board. White position is already winning.

79...Kc7 80.Dc5 Kb7 81.Dh5 Df2 82.Dd5

Kc7 83.Dc4 Kb7 84.De4 Kb8 85.De8 Ka7

86.De7 Ka8 87.Dd8 Ka7 88.Df6 Dg2 89.g5

Dd5 90.Kg7 Dh1 91.g6 Dh2 92.Dd4 Ka6

93.Kf6 Dh6 94.De5 Ka7 95.Kf7 Dh3 96.g7

Df3 97.Ke7 Da3 98.Kd8 Dd3 99.Ke8 Dc4

100.Kf8 Df1 101.Ke7 Dc4 102.De3 Kb7

103.Df3 Kb6

103...Ka7 104.Df7 and queeniing.

104.Df6 1:0.

In the next example black has 5 pawns

against 4.Generally speaking-more pawns-

more possibilities for the upper hand.

Negi P. : Beliavsky A.

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53.Dd7 Df4 54.Kh1 Df6

Black is preparing plan g5-g4 with a two

ideas. First is to leave e4 pawn without

protection in the case of trade pawns on g4.

And the second one is to move g pawn to g3

to strangle white king, if white will not take

this pawn on g4.

55.Dc7 g5 56.Dd7 De6 57.Dd8

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57.Dc6 was the best option: 57...g4 58.hg4

hg4 59.fg4 (59.Kg1 g3 and white king in the

mate net) 59...Dg4 60.Dd6 De4 61.Dc7 De1

62.Kh2 De3 63.g4! To keep black king from

advancing toward his white colleague.

63...Df2 (63...Kg6 64.Dc8) 64.Kh3 Df4

65.Db8 and it is very difficult to make

progress for black.

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59.Kh2

59.fg4 Dg4 60.Dd6 De4 seems as better

option for the white. However black has

better move instead of 59..Qg4: 59.fg4 Dh6!

60.Kg1 De3 61.Kh2 De4 62.Dd6 Df4 and

white cannot avoid Queen trade. 63.Kg1

a) 63.g3 Dh6–+;

b) 63.Kh3 Dh6 64.Dh6 Kh6 65.Kh4 Kg6

66.Kg3 (66.g5 Kf5–+) 66...Kg5 67.Kf3 f6

68.g3 (68.Kg3 e4–+) 68...Kh6 69.Ke4 Kg6

70.Ke3 Kf7 71.Kf3 Ke7 72.Ke3 Kd6 73.Ke4

Ke6 74.Ke3 Kd5 75.Kd3 e4 76.Kc3 Kc5

77.Kd2 Kd4 78.Ke2 e3 79.Kd1 Kd5 80.Ke1

Ke5 81.Kd1 Kd4 82.Ke2 (82.Ke1 Kd3

83.Kd1 e2 84.Ke1 Ke3 85.g5 fg5 86.g4

Kf3–+) 82...Ke4 83.Kd1 Kf3–+; 63...Dd4

64.Dd4 ed4 65.Kf2 Kf6 66.Ke2 Ke5 67.Kd3

f6 68.Kd2 Ke4 69.Ke2 d3 70.Kd2 Kd4

71.Kd1 Ke3 72.Ke1 d2 73.Kd1 Kd3–+ 74.g5

fg5 75.g3 Ke3 76.g4 Kf3 77.Kd2 Kg4

78.Ke2 Kg3 79.Kf1 Kh2–+; 59.Kg1 gf3

60.gf3 Df6 61.Dc8 Df3–+.

59...Dh6 60.Kg3 Df4 61.Kf2 Df6 62.Dd7

Dh4 63.Ke2

63.Kf1 g3 64.Dh3 Dh3 65.gh3 f5 66.ef5 Kf6

67.Kg2 Kf5 68.Kg3 d5 69.Kf2 d4 70.Ke2

(70.h4 Kg6 71.Ke2 Kh5–+) 70...Kg5 71.Kd3

Kh4 72.Ke4 Kh3 73.f4 d3 74.Kd3 ef4–+.

63...Dg3 64.fg4

Pawn endgame also winning for black:

64.Dg4 Dg4 65.fg4 Kf6 66.Kf3 Kg5 67.Kg3

f6 68.Kf3 Kh4–+ and White loosing g4

pawn.

64...Dg2 65.Ke3 Dg3 66.Ke2 Df4 67.Dd6

Dg4 68.Kf2 Df4 69.Kg1 Dg5

Queen trade inevitable.

70.Kf2 Df6 71.Df6 Kf6 72.Kf3 Kg5 73.Kg3

f6

Zugzwang.Black king penetrate to f4,

winning the e4 pawn. 0:1.

Beliavsky A. : Rozanov P.

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White has a threat Df5 with a winning pawn

ending.

59...De8 60.Df5 Kh6

Better was g6. We will see in the game how

white traded g and h pawns to leave black

king without pawn cover. Next, white

exploite openess of black king to bring his

own king to e5 pawn. 60...g6 61.Df6 Kg8

62.g4. The natural idea to obtain free e pawn

is a wrong one. Because white king

becoming open for the checks and has not

reasonable plan to hide somewhere (62.f4

ef4 63.Df4 Dc6 64.Db8 Kf7 65.Db3 Kf6

66.Kf3 Dd6 67.De3 Ke6 68.Dc3 Kf7 69.Dc4

Kf6 70.Dd5 Dd5 71.ed5 Ke5=) 62...hg4

63.Kg3 Kh7 64.Kg4 (does not work an idea

first open black king and later take back h

and g pawns: 64.h5 gh5 65.Kh4 g3! 66.fg3

Dg6 and white cannot take e5 pawn because

of mate on g4) 64...Dd7 65.Kg3 Dd3 66.Df3

(66.f3 Dd4) 66...Dd8 67.Df7 Kh6 68.Dd5

Df6 69.Dd2 Kh5 70.De2 Kh6 71.Dg4 De7

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72.Kg2 Df6 and white has not means to

trade h pawn for the pawn g6.

61.g4 hg4 62.Kg3 g6

Does not help 62...Db5 63.Dg5 Kh7 64.Dh5

Kg8 65.Dg4 Db3 66.Kg2 Dc3 67.h5 Kh7

68.Dg6 Kh8 69.h6 gh6 70.Dh6 Kg8 71.Df6

(71.Dg5 Kf7) 71...Da1 (71...Kh7 72.Dh4

Kg6 73.Dg3 Dg3 74.Kg3 Kg5 (74...Kh5

75.f4+-) 75.f3 Kf6 76.Kh4 Kg6 77.Kg4 Kf6

78.Kh5+-) 72.f3 Kh7 73.Kh2 Dd4 74.Kh3

Df2 75.Df5 Kh6 76.De6 Kh7 77.Dg4 Dd4

78.Dg5 Db2 79.Kg3 Kh8 80.De7 Kg8

81.Kh3 Kh8 82.Kh4 Df2 83.Kg5 Dg3

(83...Df3 84.Df6 Df6 85.Kf6+-) 84.Kh6 Df4

85.Kg6 Dg3 86.Dg5+-.

63.Df6

Correct continuation was: 63.Dg5! Kh7

64.h5 gh5 65.Kh4 and white is winning both

pawns h and g and what is decisive he

penetrate with a king toward f5 or f6 square.

63...Kh7 64.Kg4 Dc8

Better was 64...Dd7 65.Kg3 Dd3 66.Df3

Dd8 67.Dg4 Dd3 68.f3 (68.Kg2 Dd4 69.h5

gh5 70.Dh5 Kg7 71.Df5 Dd6 72.Kh3 Kh6

73.Kg3 Dc7 74.Df6 (74.f3 Dg7 75.Dg4 Dc7

76.Dh3 Kg5 77.Df5 Kh6 78.Dg4 Dc5

79.Dh3 Kg6 80.De6 Kh5 81.Df5 Kh6

82.Df6 Kh5 83.Df5 Kh6; 74.Kg4 Dg7

75.Kh3 Dc7) 74...Kh5! 75.f3 Dg7! and a

draw because of stalemate) 68...Dd2

(68...Dd6 69.h5 gh5 70.Dh5 Kg7 71.Df5

Dc5 72.Dg5 Kf7 73.Kg4 Dd6 74.Dh5 Kg8

75.Df5 (75.Kf5 Dd7 76.Ke5?? Db5–+)

75...Kg7 76.Dg5 Kf7 77.Kh5 Db8 78.Dg6

Ke7 79.Kh6 Db2 80.Kg7 Dh2 81.Df6 Kd7

82.Dg5 Kc7 83.Dg6 Db2 84.Kf6) 69.h5 De1

70.Kg2 De2 71.Kh3 Df1 72.Kh4 De1

73.Kg5 Dd2 74.Kf6 Dd6 75.Kf7 Dc7 76.Ke6

Dc6 77.Ke5 Dc5 78.Kf6 Dd6 79.De6 Df4

80.Ke7 gh5 81.Df5 Df5 82.ef5 h4 83.f6 h3

84.f7 h2 85.f8D h1D and black has a king in

the right corner to claim a draw.

65.Kg3 Dc3 66.Df3 Dc7 67.Df8

67.h5 gh5 68.Dh5 Kg7 69.Dg5 Kh7?

(69...Kf7 70.Df5 (70.Kg4 Db8 71.f3 (71.Kf5

Dc8 72.Ke5 Dc5 73.Kf4 Df2) 71...Dd6

72.Dh5 Kg7) 70.Kg4 and white king

penetrate on f5.

67...Dd7 68.Df6 Dd3 69.Df3 Dd6 70.Df7

Kh8

70...Kh6 71.Dg8 Df6 72.f3 Df4 73.Kg2 Df6

74.Kg1 g5 75.hg5 Dg5 76.Dg5 Kg5 77.Kg2

Kg6 78.Kf2 Kf6 79.Ke3 Ke7 80.Kd3 Kd6

81.Kc4 Kc6.

71.Kg4 Dd1 72.Df3 Dd8

72...Dg1 73.Dg3 Da1 74.h5 Kg7 75.hg6 Kg6

76.Kh4 Kf6 77.Dg5 Kf7 78.Dh5 Kg7 79.f3

Dd4 80.Dg4 Kf7 81.Df5 Ke7 82.Kg5 Dg1

83.Dg4 Db6 84.Dh4 De3 85.Kf5 Kd7

86.Dh7 Kc6 87.Dg6 Kc5 88.Dg3 and white

is winning e5 pawn.

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It is interesting for the theory of queen

endgames whether and when such a pawn

structure is winning for white. In general, if

white succeed bring his king to f5 or f6, it is

winning.

74...De8 75.Kg5 Dg8 76.Kh4 Dd8 77.Kg3

Dd6 78.Dg4 Dg6

White is not obliged take this queen. Better

was: 78...Kh7 79.Dh5 Kg8 80.f3 Kg7

81.Kg4 De6 82.Df5 Dd6 83.Dg5 Kf7 With a

king on f7 rather then h7, black has much

more tricks. Still white position is winning:

84.Kh5 Dd4 85.Dg6 Ke7 86.Kg4 Dc5

87.Dg7 (does not work 87.Kf5 Dc8 88.Ke5

Dc5 89.Kf4 Dc1 90.Kf5 Dc5 91.e5 Dc2

92.Kg5 Dg2 93.Kh6 Df3 with a draw)

87...Ke6 88.Dg8 Kf6 89.Kh5 Dd4 90.Df8

Ke6 91.Kg6 Dg1 92.Kh7 Dd4

a) 92...Dg3 93.Dg8+-;

b) 92...Da7 93.Kg8 Dg1 94.Dg7 Dd4

95.Dg6 Ke7 96.Kg7 Dc3 (96...Da1 97.Df7

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Kd6 98.Kf6+-) 97.Df5 and white king

bringing on f6 and winning e5 pawn; 93.Dc8

Kf7 94.Dc7 Kf6 95.Dc6 Kf7 96.Dg6 Ke7

97.Kg7 Kd7 98.Kf6 Dc3 99.Df5 Kd8

100.Ke6 Dc6 101.Ke5+-.

79.Kh3 Dd6 80.f3 Dd4

80...Kh7 81.Dg5 Dc5 82.Kg4 With a king on

h7 helpless to protect e5 pawn white easily

wins. 81.De6 Dc5 82.Df6 Kh7 83.Kg4 Dc3

84.Kh5 Da1 85.De7 Kh8 86.Kg6 Dg1

87.Dg5

We showed hereby that white wins with e

and f pawns against e pawn if white king

succeed to penetrate to f5 or even better to

f6. 1:0.

Beliavsky A. : Romero Holmes A,

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52...Dc2?

White is gaining an important tempo to bring

his queen back to e5 and hold out black

counterplay,while promotig his free b pawn.

Instead,black had a chance place his queen

to e5 square to gain attack against white

king. 52...Da2 53.Dd4 Da3 54.Db6 Db2

55.b5 (55.Dc5 Kg6 56.b5 h5 57.b6 g4

58.Dc6 f6 59.b7 De5 60.hg4 hg4 61.Db6 f3

62.g3 Dh5 63.Kg1 Dh3 64.Db1 Kg7 65.Df1

Dh8 66.De1 Dh3 67.De7 Kg6 68.De4 Kh6

69.Df4 Kh7 70.Df5 Kg7 71.Dd7 Kh6

72.Dd2=) 55...De5 56.f3 h5 57.Db7 Kg7

58.b6 g4 59.hg4 hg4 60.fg4 f3 61.Kh3 f2

62.Df3 f1D 63.Df1 De3 64.Df3 Db6=.

53.f3 Da2 54.Df6 b5

54...Da3 55.Df7 Kh8 56.Df6 Kh7 57.Db6+-.

55.Df5 Kg7 56.Db5 Da3 57.De5 Kg6 58.b5

Da5 59.De4?

White had a way to promote b pawn while

escaping from perpetual check. 59.Dd6 f6

(59...Kh5 60.Df6 De1 61.Df7 Kh4 62.Dc4

Dg3 63.Kg1 De1 64.Df1 De5 65.Df2 Kh5

66.b6 Db5 67.Kh2 Db4 68.h4 g4 69.fg4 Kg4

70.Df3 Kh4 71.Dc6 Kg5 72.b7 Db3 73.De4

Dg3 74.Kg1 f3 75.Dd5 Kh4 76.Dc4 Kh5

77.Df7 Kh4 78.Df6 Kh5 79.Df3) 60.b6 De1

61.Dd3 f5 (61...Kh5 62.De4+-) 62.b7 Dg3

63.Kg1 De1 64.Df1 Db4 65.Da6 Kh5

66.Kh2 Db1 (66...De1 67.b8D+-) 67.Da7 g4

68.hg4 fg4 69.fg4 Kg4 70.b8D.

59...Kh5?

Here black king will be subject to mate

attack. Instead 59…Kf6, with an idea to

bring black king closer to b pawn, was a

correct way to escape. If black king close

enough to b pawn white cannot trade queens

on e4 or f1 and black queen perpetualy

check white king. 59...Kg7 60.Dd4 Kg8

(60...f6 61.b6 Db5 62.Dd6 Kg6 63.Dc7 Db1

64.b7 De1 65.Dc2 f5 66.Dc4 Dg3 67.Kg1

De1 68.Df1 Db4 69.Da6 Kh5 70.De6

(70.Kf1 Db1 71.Ke2 Dc2) 70...Db7 71.Df5

Db6=) 61.b6 De1 62.De4+- (62.b7? Dg3

63.Kh1 De1 64.Dg1 Db4=) ;

59...Kf6! 60.Dc6 Ke7 61.b6 De1=.

60.Df5 f6

60...Dc7 61.h4! with an idea 62.hg5 hg5

63.Dh7 mate.

61.De6+- Db5 62.Df7 Kh4 63.Dg6 h5

64.De4

Threatening both 65.g3# and 65. Qe1#.

64...g4 65.Df4 1:0.

Ionov S. : Beliavsky A.

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47...b5 48.Dc7

48.Dg6 Kg8 49.Dc6 b4 50.Kd2 Dd4 51.Ke2

De5 52.Kd2 Kf7 53.Dg6 Ke7 54.Dg5 Df6

55.De3 Kd6 56.Db6 Ke5 57.Da5 Dg5

58.Ke2 Dg2 59.Kd1 Df3 60.Kc1 Dc3

61.Kd1 Dd4 62.Ke2 De4 63.Kd2 Kf5 and g

pawn is unstopable.

48...De7 49.Dc8

49.Dc6 b4 50.Kd2 Dg5 51.Ke1 Dg1 52.Ke2

Dg4 53.Ke1 De4 54.Kd1 Dd4 55.Kc2 Df2

56.Kd1 Df5 57.Dc7 Ke6 58.Da5 De4 very

much the same as happend in the game.

49...De3 50.Kc2 De4 51.Kc1 b4 52.Dc7

52.Dc6 Df4 53.Kb2 Dd4 54.Kc2 De4

55.Kd2 Df4 56.Kd1 Df5 57.Dc7 Ke6 58.Da5

Dg4 59.Kd2 g5 60.Db6 Kf5 61.Da7 De4–+.

52...De7 53.Dc8 Dd6 54.Kd1 Kf6 55.Dg8

De7 56.Dc8 Dd6 57.Dg8 Dd7 58.Df8 Df7

59.Dd6 Kf5 60.Dc6 Dh5 61.Kc2 De2

62.Kc1 De3 63.Kc2 Dd4 64.Dd7 Kf4

65.Dc7 Kf3 66.Da5 g5 0:1.

In the next 4 examples eventual pawn

endgames is all of importance.You should be

ready to precise calculations taking in

account queen trades.

Beliavsky A. : Dolmatov S.

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The pawn structure is drawish with a black

king correctly placed on the king side. Still

black should be careful to avoid an

embarrassing trick.

66...Dh2?

66...Dc7 67.De5 Df7 68.Df5 Dc7 69.Kg4

Dg7 70.Kh5 Kh8 71.h4 Df7 72.Kg4 Dg8

73.Kh3 De8 74.h5 Kg7 75.Kg4 De3 76.Dg6

Kf8 77.Df6 Kg8 78.Dd8 Kg7 79.Dc7 Kg8

80.Dc4 Kg7 81.f4 Db6 82.Dd5 Da6 83.De5

Kf7 84.Df5 Kg7 and with a certain degree of

accuracy black will escape. 67.Kf5+- Dh3

67...Kf8 68.Db4 Kf7 69.Dc4 Ke7 70.De6

Kd8 71.Dh6+-.

68.Kf6

Suddenly black found himself helpless to

avoid lost pawn endgames.

68...Dg2 69.Dg6 Dg6 70.Kg6 Kf8 71.Kh6

Kf7 72.Kg5 Kg7 73.Kf5 Kf7 74.f4 1:0.

Beliavsky A. : Hansen C.

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84...Df1

84...h3 85.Db7 De2 86.e7 Kg5 87.Dd5 Kf6

88.e8D De8 89.Df3 Kg7 90.Dh3 Dh8

91.Kg2 Dh3 92.Kh3 Kf6 93.Kg4 draw.

85.Kh2 ½.

Beliavsky A. : Nikolic P.

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66.e5!?

It is just a trick. 66.Dg3 Kf7 67.Dc7 Kg6

68.Dd8 Kg7 69.Dd5 De2 was a normal way,

however it is difficult make a progress with

white. 70.Df5 Dd3 71.Dh5 De4 72.Kg3 Dd3

73.f3 Dd6 74.Kh3 Dd1 and a draw is very

probable.

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66...De5?

Black miscalculated pawn endgame. 66...fe5

67.Dh5 Da5 68.Dg5 Kh7 was enough for a

draw.

67.Dg3 Kf7 68.De5 fe5 69.Kf3 Ke7 70.Ke4

Ke6 71.f3 Kf6 72.f4 ef4 73.Kf4

Zugzwang. 1:0.

Beliavsky A. : Ivanchuk V.

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52...Df6

52...Kh7 53.Da2! (only move, otherwise

white is loosing: 53.Ke3 Dg4; 53.Dc7 Dh5

54.Kg3 h2–+) 53...h2 54.Df7= Kh6 55.Df8

and draw with perpetual check.

53.Kg3 Dc3

53...De5 54.Kh3 Dh2 55.Kh2 Kg5 56.Kg3

with a draw.

54.Kg4 Dd3 55.Db8 h2 56.Dg8 Kf6 57.Dg5

Ke6 58.Df5 Ke7 59.De5 Kd7 60.Dh2 De4

61.Df4! Df4 62.Kf4 Ke6 63.Ke4

White took an opposition just in time. ½.