Cecil Purdy

Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf.

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[Event "rated untimed match"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Averbah"]
[Black "Bebcuk"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[FEN "8/1p4p1/2k2p1p/5P2/4P1PP/3K4/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]

{ A classic breakthrough of an advanced majority of pawns against a minority. } 1. e5 fxe5 2. g5 hxg5 3. f6 { The point. } 3... gxf6 4. h5 f5 5. h6 e4+ 6. Ke2 g4 7. h7 f4 8. h8=Q e3 9. Qf6+ Kc5 10. Qxf4 { White wins with a large material
advantage. } 1-0