Journey To Ararat With My Chess Set: Part VI

October 3, 2019 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In 1829 German naturalist Friedrich Parrot together with prominent Armenian writer Khachatur Abovian, two Russian soldiers and two Armenian villagers made the first recorded ascent of biblical mount Ararat! Later Parrot would write a book about that ascent “Journey to Ararat”. 190 years later I make my journey taking my magnetic chess set with me! This is my journey, journey to Ararat with my chess set!
This is the last part, Part VI which I filmed at the top of mount Ararat 5165m above the sea level! In the video I am analyzing a chess puzzle composed by Armenian chess composer Genrikh Kasparyan, which is considered to be his most famous composition! With the help of a brilliant fork White is winning!
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Genrikh Kasparyan, Chess in the USSR, 1935-06 (4th Prize)
White is winning
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This position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) is: 2B3K1/8/3N1p1p/6pk/5P1P/6P1/7r/5r2 w – – 0 0
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