Ogoniek (Botvinnik)
In Cheron, and other sources, the following study by Botvinnik is
given:
8/8/4kpp1/8/2KPP3/8/6P1/n7 w - - 0 1
White to play and draw
It is a very nice study, a very nice addition to the "knight in the
corner" groups of studies of N+P(s) vs. Ps. It is well worth taking
the time to try to solve it, and if you can't, just about any computer
(except GETCLUB and IVAN, of course) will find the continuation -
although my Fritz9 takes a bit.
My question is about the magazine Ogoniek, which is the original
source for the study, having been published in 1952. In one place, it
is listed as an "avant-garde" magazine, not a place where you would
expect to find a Botvinnik study (let alone a Russian magazine of that
type being in existence at all at that time).
Can anyone supply brief details?
Thanks!
SBD
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