• ck_
    1·
    1 year ago

    Bf6+ Kh7 Rg7+ Kh6 Rf7 Kg6 Rf8

    Would be the line I’m thinking

    • Bonifratz@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago

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

      • ck_
        1·
        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.

        • ck_
          1·
          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.

        • Bonifratz@feddit.deOP
          1·
          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.

          • ck_
            1·
            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.

            • Bonifratz@feddit.deOP
              1·
              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).

              • ck_
                1·
                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

                  • ck_
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    Full disclaimer, I did have to put it on the (analog) board in the end to find Bf6+ 😓

      • Epicurus0319@lemmy.world
        1·
        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