C0016 - SOLUTION AND COMMENTS

anticipated

Leonid Makaronez

Israel

C0016, 06.08.2007.

#8                                     4+9

precedent
Filip Bondarenko

Ukraine

1st Honorable Mention, Erevan Ty. 1947.


+                                      4+4

Solution:

1. Ke1 ~ 2. Kd1 ~ 3. Kc1 ~ 4. Kb1 ~ 
5. Ka1 ~ 6. Qb1 Ra2+ 7. Kxa2

Solution:

1. a7! (1. Kd1? Kb8! 2. a7+ Kb7!) ... Kb7 2. Kd1 Ka8
3. Kc1 Kb7 4. Kb1 Ka8 5. Ka1 Kb7 6. Qb1+ wins.

Comment (1) - Oto Mihalco

Bondarenko's study has got very similar idea combined with tempo play (not 1. Kd1?, but 1. a7!).