Andrew Soltis

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose. -- on playing against Fischer.

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[Event "rated untimed match"]
[Site "Tallin"]
[Date "1977.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Vadasz"]
[Black "Heuer"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[FEN "6k1/R4p2/1pp2Pp1/4P3/1p1r1P2/1P6/1KP5/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]

{ White's large advanced pawn mass wins, but how? } 1. Ra8+ { Forcefully pushing
black's king away from the promotion square is a good start. } 1... Kh7 2. e6 { Break through! } ( { This line wins also: } 2. Rf8 Rd7 3. Re8 Rd5 4. e6 fxe6 5. f7 Rf5 6. f8=Q Rxf8 7. Rxf8 Kg7 8. Rb8 c5 9. Rxb6 Kf6 10. Rc6 Kf5 11. Rxc5+ Kxf4 12. Rc4+ Kf3 13. Rxb4 g5 14. Rb6 e5 15. Rf6+ Kg3 16. c4 e4 17. Kc3 g4 18. c5 e3 19. c6 e2 20. Kd2 Kh3 21. c7 g3 22. c8=Q+ Kh2 23. Kxe2 g2 24. Qg4 g1=Q 25. Rh6# ) 2... fxe6 3. f5 { The immediate f7 is also good for the win, but
this move invites black to block the f-file or lose a pawn. } 3... Rf4 4. fxe6 Rxf6 5. e7 Re6 6. e8=Q Rxe8 7. Rxe8 { White wins with a large material advantage. } 7... g5 8. Re6 c5 9. Rxb6 Kg7 10. Rc6 g4 11. Rxc5 Kg6 12. Rb5 Kf6 13. Rxb4 Kf5 14. Rb8 g3 15. c4 Kf4 16. c5 g2 17. Rg8 Kf3 18. c6 Kf2 19. c7 g1=Q 20. Rxg1 Kxg1 21. c8=Q 1-0