White to move. How would you assess this position? How should White proceed?
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Kc3 Re3+, Kb2 Re2
Just sets up a draw by repetition? Or maybe after Re3+, Kd2 Rxa, Rxf draw
What does this mean? 8/p3k3/6R1/8/8/P7/1KP1r1p1/8 w – – 0 1
Kc3 Re3+, Kb2 Re2
Just sets up a draw by repetition? Or maybe after Re3+, Kd2 Rxa, Rxf draw
Why should Black be so accommodating? Isn’t 1…Kf7 much more logical?
What does this mean? 8/p3k3/6R1/8/8/P7/1KP1r1p1/8 w – – 0 1
It’s Forsyth-Edwards Notation for the diagram position.
im not sure, but i think white can draw this. The only winning plan for black is to get his king to the pawn g2. First moves are clear (?):
1.Kc3 Kf7
2.Rg4 Kf6 (not 2.Rg3 Re3+ -+)
3.Kd3 Rf2
and now:
4.Rg8 Kf5
5.Rg7 Kf4
6.Rf7+ Kg3 (not 6.Rg8 Re3+ and Rg3 -+)
7.Rg7+ Kh2
8.Rh7+ Kg1
9.Rxa7 Kf1
10.Rb7 g1Q
11.Rb1+ Kg2
12.Rxg1 Kxg1=
im not sure if black can play Re3+ sometime.
Tobe
Now white keeps his rook on the g-file.
…ignore the last sentence
Tobe
Tobe –
(not 6.Rg8 Re3+ and Rg3 -+)
Of course that’s 6…Rf3+.
I don’t see anything better for either side. Another line that leads to the same result:
10.Rg7 Rf3+
11.Kd4 Kf2
12.Rxg2+ Kxg2
13.c4 (or 13.a4, but not 13.c3? which, per the tablebases, loses in abstruse fashion)
Even material, both king safe, Black has a very far advanced protected passed pawn. Ad to Black.
How should they play it out?
If White plays all defense he has problems since he might get to keep his c-file pawn (with c2-c4), but trade pawn a3 and his rook for Black’s pawn g2 and rook. This is a disaster for White because at the end Black’s king is in the square of White’s pawn c4, but White’s king at g2 or g3 would be outside the square of Black’s pawn a5 (after …a7-a5).
If White plays queen-side offense and Black moves his king to the f-file and up to his pawn it takes Black about 8 moves to promote and win White’s rook. But, then can White force pawns off the board and promote to win Black’s rook? It’s very close.
I see one variation where Black wins by one move, so it’s hard to say definitively whether White can hold a draw.