White to move. Can White win this? This was an actual game from 2 GMs.
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I know the basic idea: white moves his king to f8 and plays rc8, threatening both rc6 mate and to queen the pawn. I am to tired to calculate variations.
-Justin Daniel
Rh8 Rxb7
Rxh6+ Kg7
Rh5 Kg6
Kxe5
Rh8 Rxb7
Rxh6+ Kg7
Rh5 Rb5
Rxg5+
either way the e or g pawn is going to be swiped. if black makes the mistake
Rh8 Kg7
h8
white wins the game no problem. e blogger needs to step up. there blogger is horrid.
Greetings,
1.f4! (1.If the White King intends marching up to f8 to set up mate threats on the 6th rank, black simply plays Kg7 and white will have to return to d6 and start again)
1…Rd1+ (1…ef 2.Rg8! intending e5#;1…gf 2.gf leads to the same thing)
2. Kc7 Rc1+
3. Kd7 Rb1 (3…Rd1+ 4. Ke8 Rb1 5.fe+ Kxe5 6.Kxf7+-)
4. fe+ Kg7
5. e6 is trivial.
King.
Basic idea is to find any double threat so that white is able to move the rook.
Moving king to f8 does not work, because it gives black time to play Kg7.
Also Rh8->Rh6+ does not lead to clear advantage. So have a look on exchange first
1. f4 gxf4
2. gxf4 exf4
3. Rg8!!
with now doublethreating
mate after e5 and promoting
.. Rb6+
4. Kc7 1-0
it’s drawn!
First i looks on rh8 then that Justin said and after 5 min i see f4 idea are gf gf ef rg8!!
Knightonranden
Queening the ‘b’ pawn looks not easy. Black can counter for most of the variation I calculated.
The idea comes to my mind is after Rg8, the black king has no square to move, but white cannot give a checkmate.
One variation is
1. Rg8 Rxb7 2. f4 (with a threat of fxe4#)
2. … exf4? 3. e5#
2. … gxf4 3. gxf4 exf4 4. e5#
But
2. … Rb6+ 3. Kc7 Ra7 and black escapes
My instinct tells me the combination of Rg8 and f4 will give trouble to black, but I just couldn’t get correct variations.
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I like this position. Who played it?
Anyway, I think that 1. f4 ef 2. gf gf 3. Rg8 wins.
For example,
1.f4 ef 2.gf gf 3.Rg8 Rb6 4.Kc7 Rb7 5. Kb7 f3 6.Kc6 Ke5 7.Re8 Kf4 8.Re7 Kg4 9.Rf7 h5 10.Kd5 h4 11.e5 h3 12.Ke4 h2 13.Rg7 Kh3 14.Rh7 Kg3 15.Rh2 Kh2 16.Kf3