[Event "Malyshko-105 MT"] [Site "?"] [Date "2017.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Rusz, Árpád"] [Black "(Study 123)"] [Result "1-0"] [Annotator "2nd Prize"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "3n4/8/3P4/3p4/3K4/8/3N4/3k4 w - - 0 1"] [PlyCount "23"] [EventDate "2017.??.??"] {[%evp 0,23,252,254,242,242,242,265,266,284,278,685,685,715,715,715,725,735,735,735,735,735,735,745,1012,1032]} 1. Nf3 $1 ({Thematic try:} 1. Nb3 $2 Ne6+ $1 (1... Nc6+ $2 2. Kxd5 Nb8 3. Nc5 Kc2 4. Na6 $1 Nd7 5. Ke6 Nb6 6. Nc7 Kb3 7. Na8 $3 {The white knight leaves the d5 square empty for the king.} Na4 8. Kd5 $1 $18) 2. Ke5 $1 (2. Kxd5 Nf8 3. Nd4 Kd2 4. Ne6 Nd7 5. Kc6 Ne5+ 6. Kd5 Nd7 {positional draw}) 2... Nf8 3. Nc5 d4 ({or} 3... Kc2 4. Kf6 d4) 4. Kf6 Kc2 5. Kf7 d3 6. Nxd3 Nd7 7. Ke8 Nf6+ $1 (7... Nb6 $2 8. Nc5 Kc3 9. Na4+ $1 $18) 8. Ke7 Nd5+ 9. Ke6 Nb6 10. Nb4+ Kb3 {(Position X')} 11. Nd5 {The white knight blocks the d5 square for the king.} Na4 $1 12. d7 Nc5+ $11) 1... Nc6+ $1 {In order to avoid some sacrifices, the black knight tries to stay on the other flank compared to the white knight's position.} (1... Ke2 2. Ne5 Ne6+ 3. Kxd5 Nf8 4. Ng6 $1 $18) (1... Ne6+ 2. Kxd5 Nf8 3. Ne5 (3. Nh4) 3... Kd2 4. Ng6 $18) 2. Kc5 $1 (2. Kxd5 $2 Nb8 3. Nd4 Kd2 4. Nc6 Nd7 5. Ke6 Nc5+ 6. Kd5 Nd7 {positional draw}) 2... Nb8 3. Ne5 d4 $1 4. Kb6 $1 {There is no time to pick up the pawn!} Ke2 5. Kb7 $1 {The black knight seems caught but it will manage to escape.} d3 6. Nxd3 {There was no time to capture the black knight.} Nd7 7. Kc8 $1 {This is the best square to avoid some nasty knight forks.} (7. Kc6 $2 Nf8 $1 8. Ne5 Kd2 $1 (8... Ke3 $2 9. Kd5 $18 {mutual zugzwang}) 9. Ng6 Nxg6 10. d7 Ne5+ $11) 7... Nb6+ $1 {Before going to the longer flank, the black knight tries to chase the king to a less favourable square.} 8. Kc7 Nd5+ 9. Kc6 Nf6 {By pushing the white king to c6, black has managed to dismiss g4 as a square for a knight sacrifice.} 10. Nf4+ Kf3 {(Position X) We have a situation similar to the initial position: the attacked knight has to decide again which way to go.} 11. Nh5 $3 {The white knight finds another square to sacrifice itself using the extra file.} (11. Nd5 $2 {is bad because it blocks the d5 square.} Ng4 $1 12. d7 Ne5+ $11) 11... Ng4 12. Kd5 $1 {This move is the reason why the d5 square was left empty!} 1-0