Before I cast my vote, could somebody explain to me why this study is famous? What is the main idea? The play looks a bit academic to me, especially in the secondary lines.
One candidate is the surprisingly slow advance of the white pawn, but given that after 5. f4 the black king is too active (despite the pawn having crossed the Troitzky line), what are the alternatives to playing against the Ng1?
You are in the cinema and want to take a seat, but at the very last moment somebody anticipates you. You go to another seat. But the same somebody takes it again before you. The pawn does this «taken seat» trick to the black knight 4 times (2×2). At the end the king comes and asks the knight to leave the cinema because all the seats are taken. Echo play to trap the knight in two main lines.
Nice story, Sergiy, but the play in the study is less transparent than your story. It would be more convincing if the pawn could be stopped on f4 (Troitzky line) in the 5. f4 try. Also the differentiation in the 5. f3 Nh3 line is not clear: why does 7. Kf4 draw and 7. f4 lose? In both cases, the pawn makes it to f5. I guess because EGTB tells us, but the reasons are not humanly transparent. Not a bad composition, certainly, but too much of a study for a book by Averbakh or by Karsten Müller.
There’s an important rule about Troitsky line that most composers know by heart. It’s a win when the pawn is blocked on f5 and the king can’t go to h8-corner.
Известный этюд С.Белоконя в форме миниатюры и без дуалей.
Before I cast my vote, could somebody explain to me why this study is famous? What is the main idea? The play looks a bit academic to me, especially in the secondary lines.
One candidate is the surprisingly slow advance of the white pawn, but given that after 5. f4 the black king is too active (despite the pawn having crossed the Troitzky line), what are the alternatives to playing against the Ng1?
You are in the cinema and want to take a seat, but at the very last moment somebody anticipates you. You go to another seat. But the same somebody takes it again before you. The pawn does this «taken seat» trick to the black knight 4 times (2×2). At the end the king comes and asks the knight to leave the cinema because all the seats are taken. Echo play to trap the knight in two main lines.
Nice story, Sergiy, but the play in the study is less transparent than your story. It would be more convincing if the pawn could be stopped on f4 (Troitzky line) in the 5. f4 try. Also the differentiation in the 5. f3 Nh3 line is not clear: why does 7. Kf4 draw and 7. f4 lose? In both cases, the pawn makes it to f5. I guess because EGTB tells us, but the reasons are not humanly transparent. Not a bad composition, certainly, but too much of a study for a book by Averbakh or by Karsten Müller.
There’s an important rule about Troitsky line that most composers know by heart. It’s a win when the pawn is blocked on f5 and the king can’t go to h8-corner.