Keres Study
16.10.2005
[McLeod, Fraser]

I saw this in Keres endings book and found it both difficult to solve and entertaining.



1.Bg5 Kb6
to prevent the white bishop raching a7

2.Be3+ Ka6 3.Bc5 Be5 4.Be7 Kb6
to prevent the white bishop raching c7

5.Bd8+ Kc6
this is almost back to the starting position, but with one important difference, as illustrated by white's next move

6.Bf6 Bh2 7.Bd4 Bf4 8.Ba7 Bh2 9.Bb8 Bg1 10.Bg3 Ba7 11.Bf2 1-0