• ck_
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    1 year ago

    Rf7 wins a piece, doesn’t it? After that it’s just a matter of technique, as they say.

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      1 year ago

      Bf6+ Kh7 Rg7+ Kh6 Rf7 Kg6 Rf8

      Would be the line I’m thinking

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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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          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

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          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

            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

            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