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T-Stike: an application in the endgame

The position below is was reached in game 4, after black's eighteenth move. There you can see what actually happened. White's next move, 19. hg4, allows black to employ a threat on a T-strike that never comes into being, yet brings black, who is a man down, what he wants: the game ended in a draw.

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With e3 out, every white move except a move to g9, results in a capture. But g9 is a dead end as long as black has moves like c5-4-3 and e65, none of which interfere with the T-strike. There's a loophole for white however, and in he actual game this indeed happened. The price tag was a black breakthrough that eventually resulted in a draw.