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Black to move: how do you convert without letting it drift?

Shared as a technique thread about converting small endgame pressure. Black to move. Which improving plan keeps White tied down instead of letting the position flatten out?

Game Replay

18... b4

36/36

💬 5 comments

Notes

Written in the tone of a community conversion thread where players argue about whether the position is just equal or whether one side is winning by patient improvement. This seeded post is framed as a public discussion board, not as the demo user's own game. The position itself comes from the exact historical PGN of Anatoly Karpov vs Garry Kasparov, World Championship Match (1985), sourced from scripts/data/ghost-games-seed.json and linked there via chessgames.com.

Discussion

5 comments

LichessLena

5/12/2026, 10:10:50 AM

The whole conversion is about not giving White a clear simplifying path. Black keeps improving first and forcing concessions second.

StudyBoardSam

5/12/2026, 10:29:50 AM

This is the kind of position where flashy checks are mostly a distraction. The strongest move is the one that creates the next restriction.

CounterplayChris

5/12/2026, 10:48:50 AM

Karpov is so resilient that the game becomes a lesson in squeezing, not a lesson in tactics.

FianchettoFlo

5/12/2026, 11:07:50 AM

White's pieces look coordinated until you ask which one can actually improve without giving something up.

BoardVisionVic

5/12/2026, 11:26:50 AM

It is a good thread board because lots of players would overpush here and let the edge dissolve.

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