Tactically Defended Weak End Game Pawn

Alexander Shabalov had the fond nickname or sobriquet Shabba when face to face chess was all the rage. He and Yermo were buddies and life was good. Now online streaming resources have facilitated stay at home chess and writing talents like Daniel Naroditsky realized the USCF chess periodical were obtaining the rights to their priceless endgame commentary way tooooo CHEAP!

GM Naroditsky's Chess Life column was sucked away in Twitter induced vacuum.

This Knight versus Bishop was played against an aging Shabba at the internet chess club where the Horse on the f5 square is immune to capture due to winning KP ending for Black. Also  Bishop takes the pawn on c6 loses to the Knight fork check at d4! 

Black's doubled c pawns at c6 and c5 guard the key potential King entry point squares d5 and d4.

Was shocked to learn that folks like n.u.r.74(a colleague of Nazala Imaniah) are apparently making money by recording their facial reactions, at Youtube and instagram,  to movies and other stuff. She is some kind of Asian with nice teeth and is maybe making some click bait ad revenue by creating Male Felatio fantasies based on her supple lips. 

There are multiple safe prostitution accounts like hers where physical contact does not occur and solicitors hide behind screen names. I get a slight erection when she smiles and laughs a certain way, but have never clicked on any of her ads. 

Opening the Rook File Versus a Locked Pawn Chain

 A strong Austin Texas USA chess player told me that certain questions are literally unanswerable, but another former tournament Grand Prix player said every chess question has an answer depending on the depth of the calculations one wants to undertake.

So I present the following diagram which contains a nagging question.

Black could lock up the pawns by playing a3, but how about opening the a file with pawn takes pawn at b3? I am certain many commentators like Andrew Jeselon would bail out by saying it is a matter of style but this weak player has always thought that answer is generally bullshit. 

The aforementioned Grand Prix player, who almost went broke crisscrossing the country(eating fast food, consuming 80 proof alcoholic beverages on empty stomachs, no access to health care, STD from unprotected sex with inexpensive prostitutes, etc) would probably say that a deep enough calculation would conclusively answer the question. He would then scratch his balls. 

So what we really have here is the legendary Michael Rhode-Vasily Smyslov juxtaposition where Rhode had wasted 20 minutes calculating a variation that MR POSITIONAL Smyslov had NOT EVEN CONSIDERED!!! probably because the endgame virtuoso was just trading down to an ending where he had a minute but squeezable advantage.

Fork Trick with deeper motive

 ICC player blitzman fell prey to the fork trick in this game. The real motivation for  playing Q takes h2 pawn is NOT the obvious recovery of the material after Ng4 and the capture of the White Bitch at e3. 

The positional justification is Horse moving to the d1 square double attacking the paralyzed b2 and c3 White Pawns!! 

Predator Ward Farnsworth does above average job of extolling the virtues of positionally motivated tactics.The law professor's political preferences are quite sub standard as the buzz around UT campus suggests he voted for Trump. I beat Ward decisively in a Dallas Texas tournament, but he has certainly beaten me more decisively in his capacity to produce income and his status at a major university!!

Moving into an Absolute Pin a Good Move in this Game

 In the below position, reached at a blitz game played at the Pennsylvania USA internet chess club, White had played pawn to g4 voluntarily moving into a pin on his King on a semi open g file occupied by Black's King and Rook. Sounds like a horrible decision doesn't it FM Zaur Tekeyev?

BTW the money is to be made at online streaming places like Twitch Mr Tekeyev, not writing paper books on 25 elementary tactics everybody should know. Where the the hell did you get twenty five dude? Are those the only 25 you know?

I bet players stronger than you do not know the trivial distinction between a relative and absolute pin.

In any event, see if you can see why a logical looking move like Qg5 is a blunder. Hint: Transform the the absolute pin into a winning relative pin!

Finally the most underrated resource on the internet is Norbert Thomas. The affable German has magnificent pedagogical ability and is a strong advocate regarding the social aspect of the game we all love!

Queen Satisfactory Blockader in this position

 So you always hear some old guy at USCF tournaments saying that a Queen is a bad blockading piece and then he will look up at you with a twinkle in his eye, smacking his dentures, like he has imparted the chessic wisdom of the ages.

I wish I could find that same old fart to show him this position where the Black Queen must blockade on d6 square or White's d5 pawn will kick ass and shoot through to promote to a Queen at d8.

White does not seem to have a way to break the blockade in the above diagram since the Black King can just move back and forth from g7 to f6 it appears. Zugzwang is certainly a theme that White seeks to utilize CORRECT EDWARD WINTER and your desire to copyright. 

Author Ronan Bennett figured out a way to monetize the nerdy concept of the Z word in a military novel. A professor emeritus of architecture in Connecticut United States of America and a lover of Rand's Atlas Shrugged also has a fascination/obsession with the notion of Zugzwang as it applies to game theory in general.