Rook and Pawn endgame

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  Bartleby says:

  March 13, 2007 at 9:46 am

  No, I can’t. If I move the knight to close in on a mate, the a pawn is just too fast. Does anyone know guidelines how to handle this? Knights and outside pawns are always too hard to understand for me.

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  Steven Craig Miller says:

  March 13, 2007 at 12:31 pm

  There shouldn’t be any knights in a “Rook and Pawn Endgame.”

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  Adrenaline101a says:

  March 13, 2007 at 7:47 pm

  rh4 would appear tobe key to solving this. It prevents black’s rook from getting anywhere near the g5 square. In fact…where can black that does anything useful? and by useful I mean preventing white’s next move from being rh6

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  Anonymous says:

  March 13, 2007 at 9:31 pm

  I would start with 1.Rg4. Black must free his/her rook, or else white plays 2.Rg6. Thus 1.-Rf8 2.Rg7+ Kc8 3.Rg6 Rf5+ 4.Kb6 Rxh5 5.Rc7+ Kd8 (5.-Kb8 6.Rh7)
  6.Rxb7 looks like a simple win?

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  Jean-Luc says:

  March 14, 2007 at 3:42 pm

  I’d like to give my thought process (there are probably too much concrete variation…).

  1.Rg4

  I see that after Rg7+ (or Rf7+ or even Re7+) black’s king must go back and b7 could be lost (–Kb6…).
  Black must be active and try counterplay against this plan:

  1) Attacking b3 with his rook: I will protect with my king and take on h6: It seems a win for white (3 pawns against 1) but must be concretely analyzed.
  2) Stop Rg7+ with …Rh7 but then Rg6: zugzwang (…Rh8 Rg7+; …Rg– Rxh6; …Kc8 Kb6 and both pawns are attacked (I don’t see any concrete defence)
  3) Try a trick …Rc8 (after Rg7+ …King move with discovered check) I won’t give a check but try to advance my queen-side pawns and continue with the same ideas.

  Question: Do you see other important ideas and/or do you think some of my ideas are not important or not accurate (or silly).