Schadenfreude Time: Can you mate with a bishop and knight?
If you can, then you're qualified to laugh at a 2400 who couldn't. Behold, the horror!
Monday, December 8, 2008
Three Studies: Rooks surviving against pawns - Solution Time
Yesterday, I offered these three studies for your solving pleasure:
Wotawa 1960; White to move and draw
Kalandadze 1956; White to move and draw
Weenink 1927; White to move and draw
How did you do? If you're not sure, you can find out here.
Wotawa 1960; White to move and draw
Kalandadze 1956; White to move and draw
Weenink 1927; White to move and draw
How did you do? If you're not sure, you can find out here.
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- Three Studies: Rooks surviving against pawns - Solution Time
- Three Studies: Rooks surviving against pawns
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Three Studies: Rooks surviving against pawns
This weekend there's an A-B-C tournament in town (i.e. open only to players between 1400 and 1999), and along with it there's a book auction with the final bids going up tomorrow. (Now today.) I was browsing one of the books, a Russian edition of Averbakh's book on rook endings, and saw several neat rook vs. pawn endings in which the side with the rook has to fight for the draw. Here are three of them:
Wotawa 1960; White to move and draw
Kalandadze 1956; White to move and draw
Weenink 1927; White to move and draw
Enjoy these; I'll provide the answers on Monday (so please don't post solutions in the comment box).
Wotawa 1960; White to move and draw
Kalandadze 1956; White to move and draw
Weenink 1927; White to move and draw
Enjoy these; I'll provide the answers on Monday (so please don't post solutions in the comment box).
Related Posts (on one page):
- Three Studies: Rooks surviving against pawns - Solution Time
- Three Studies: Rooks surviving against pawns