• Bonifratz@feddit.deOP
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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.

    • ck_
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      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.

      • 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_
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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.

          • Bonifratz@feddit.deOP
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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).

            • ck_
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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

      • ck_
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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.

    • Epicurus0319@lemmy.world
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      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