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Strangely Stockfish Managed To Form A Fortress

September 17, 2020 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this video I am analyzing a complex chess puzzle composed by Czech chess composer Josef Hasek! By sacrificing the Knight White is managing to gain precious time in order to lock up the position and then with a help of an entombment motif form a fortress!
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Josef Hašek
White to draw
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The puzzle in Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN): 8/1p6/1Pp2N1q/p1Ppk2p/P3p3/3PPpPp/3K1P1P/2R5 w – – 0 1
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