• shoelace@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m no good at endgames bit but I assume it’s…

      Bf6 Kh7 Rg7 Kh6 (Kh8 loses to a discovered check) Then the knight is pinned and the black king is stuck on the H file, so the white king can move up and trade down to K R vs. K? You’d just have to make sure you don’t get forked by a knight check when moving up.

      But that seems too simple so I’m probably missing something.

      • Bonifratz@feddit.deOP
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        1 year ago

        The problem is that the knight can unpin itself, giving White no time to move the king up like that.

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          1 year ago

          All good so far, but the line continues. Black still has a tricky defensive idea up its sleeve.

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            1 year ago

            No clue to be honest. I mean, you either move the Knight and loose the Bishop or the other way round. There are no immediate forks on the board and I see no stalemate tricks either.

            You can of course play for Knight forks, but with the king being so far away from the pieces, that would be pushing it as a defensive resource.

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              1 year ago

              After 4…Nc6 5. Bxd8 Black has a nifty intermediate move which is still losing but makes things a bit less simple.

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                1 year ago

                Are you referring to Kg7 Re8 … ?

                I mean anything other than Re8 is a one move blunder, so should be easy enough to see, but yeah, Rook vs Knight is unclear.

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                  1 year ago

                  So 5. Bxd8 Kg7 6. Re8 what do you play after …Kf7? By the way R vs K is a technical draw (so not the solution here, even if difficult to defend for Black).

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                    1 year ago

                    Rook vs Knight is a draw, but Kf7 Rh8 Kg7 Bf6+ Kxf6 Rh6 picks up the Knight if you want to go for that trick

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              1 year ago

              So you end up with Rook and Bishop vs Knight or Rook and Bishop vs Bishop, both of which should be winning. I can of course imagine myself drawing those by screwing up the 50 moves, but that’s about it.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah I’ve tried in a chess app with the AI difficulty set to max, the knight almost immediately ends up winning your rook and forcing a draw