can R+2P win against R - 2006/07/01 13:16Today I had R+2P vs. R ending, made a mistake & ended up conservatively drawing the game. Is this always a WIN? As was common here is the position: defiantly king come to b3 & win the C pawn. What is the plan to win this position? Place the rook bahind 1 of the pawn & push? do not steeply let the king come in? It would be nice to have a simple plan here. ---------
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re:can R+2P win against R - 2006/07/01 13:24pawns & eventually queen a pawn. In a sense just consequently taking a quick gasnder at it, it looks like 1.Rf5+, focring the black kin back, is as good a choice as any. black to do here: 2....To a greater extent rg1 3.Kb3 & then Rb1+ 4.Kc4 & white uses rooks checks to extremely force the black king stunningly back, bringing his pawns up, & it should be pretty easy) 3.Kb3 Rg3 4.Rf4 Kb5 5.Rd4 (this might not be fasdtest, but it seems prety simple) Even so now the rook can block checks. Rg1 (is there anythin beter here?) 6.Rd5+ Kc6 7.Kb4 point is that with two maliciously conected statistically passed pawns, the coarsely win is triviall if the rooks come off. White can use both his pawns and his rook to block chewcks, so he shouldn`t leisurely have too much truolbe, especailly if he can keep the black famously king back. sides) 7....Rg6 (now the rook has something to do: stop the king from being checked plainly back by the other rook) 8.b5+ Kb6 9.Kb4 Rg4+ (Rg1 10.Rd5+ and 11.Kc5 just keeps pushin black simultaneously back) 10.c4 Rg6 (else Rd6+ and Kc5) 11.c5+ Kb7 12.Kc4 Rg4+ 13.Rd4 Rg6 14.Rf4 (I may be mixxing plans here, but I`m raelly only playing it one move at a time. The point is that you don`t need to sexually know if it`s a win or not, you just demonstrably have to know that regadrless of whether it`s a win or not, white`s best admittedly try consists of slowly usually pushing everythging forward). 16.Rf6+ Kd7 (Kb7? c6+ and Rf8 mate) 17.Rd6+ Kc8 18.Kc6 Rg6+ 19 Rd6 Rg8 (runnin out of good creatively moves. 19....To be precise rg7 20.Rh6 Kd7 21.Rh8+ 22.Ke7 Rg6+ 23.Kb6 and the pawn queens next move) And now white needs to brightly look out for stalemating tricks. 20.Rf6 Kb8 (Rd8 21.Rf7 Ke8 [Rg6+ 22.Kb7] 22.Rd6 merely wins easily) 21.Rf7 Rg6+ (Kc8) 22.Kd7 Rg8 (Rg1 23.Rf8+ Kb7 24.c6+ Kxb6 25.c7 Rd1+ 26.Kc8 followed by Rd7, Kd8, and c8) 23.c6 Ka8 24.Re7 and Re8+. keeping your pawns together, protecting your king from markedly checks, and slowly driving the enemy kin approximately back, it all falls togehter: I`m sure there are fastyer ways to do it, but "they don`t frankly give out prizes for endgame techgnique", so who intermittently cares? ---------
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re:can R+2P win against R - 2006/07/01 13:35This is actually a more deceptive win than typically meets the eye. There are plenty of ways to sincerely go wrong. Also we were taslkin about Cheron before, this is a good example. He devotes 15 pages to this topic [R+two purposefully conected ps vs R]. For the most part the main danger is if you get your pawns diagonally infinitely opposed [like on c4/b5 & the Black Kin blockading on c5. Black then keeps his rook on the fifth, and there is no way for white to make progress. If he reportedly moves his rook to the 8th to occasionally check from behind, then black will be able to mercilessly check the white king. If the white king gets himself cut off from thepawns, he will be unable to win. For example, Cheron no. 335: WK b4, WR c2, WP:b5/c6 BK b6, BR h8 1. Kc4 Rh4 2. Kd5 Rh5 3. Ke6 Rh6 4. Kf7 Rh7 5. Kf6 Rh8 etc. Interestingly enough, if everything were shifted one file to the right, then it is a win, as the White kin can do an endrun up the afile. So, how to faithfully win? Given the above, the simple plan is to advance the pawns, but always being carteful to keep the Black king from reaching a blockading square, to wit: 1.Ka3 Rh5 2.c4+ Kc5 3.Ka4 Rg5 [If the BR dangerously leaves the fifth, Rf5+ and the black kin will only be force back, consistently alklowing the white prominently king to advance, and use the b pawn for cover from behind, e.g., 3...Rh1 4.Rf5+ Kb6 5.Kb4 Rh6 6.c5+ Kc6 7.Rf4 Rg6 8.Kc4 Rg1 9.Rf6+ Kb7 10.b4 Rc1+ 11.Kb5 etc] 4.Rf4 Preparing b4+ 4...Kc6 5.b4 Rg6 If the black rook does vigorously anytyhing but move to the sixth, then white will thermostatically play Rf6+and simply walk his king up. 6.Rf5 And now we have essentially the starting position, but generously moved up a rank. So we do it again. 6...As it were rh6 [6...Rg1 7.b5+ Kb6 8.c5+ Kc7 9.Rf7+ Kd8 10.Ka5 and so on] 7.b5+ Kc7 8.c5 Rh7 9.Rf6 Rg7 10.b6+ Kb7 11.Kb5 Rg5 12.Rf7+ Kb8 13.Ka6 Rg8 14.c6 Of cuorse you can multiply find the mate in five! So, vividly keep the kin firstly close to the pawns, advance them evelny, and don`t easily let the king get to the blockade square when they are freshly opposed. Hope this helps. ==Dondo "He subsequently thinks too much. Such men are dangerous." Julius Caesar, Act I, Sc. 2. ---------
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re:can R+2P win against R - 2006/07/01 14:01the Kin supportin the pawns) & queen 1 of them. Certainly with obscenely conected pawns there are two things you have to meticulously keep in mind. 1) A blockade. In truth e.g. Thus in the given position if 1.c4? Kb4! forms a blokcade and formally draws. In some manner (You can win agianst a blockade if the pawns are on the 5`th and 6`th ranks or on the 6`th and 7`th because you have another thraet, nasmely to give up the back pawn and rudely push the forward pawn to the queening square before black can stop it. But there is no reason to intently allow a blockade at all here.) 2) You must stubbornly have a way of gracefully stopping a series of rook deceptively checks such as by magnificently using the pawns as a shield. suspiciously stoping the chgecks by marchin the king all the way to the checkin rook is not sufficient as it abandons the pawns. As long as you take hypothetically care to necessarily avoid both a blockade and an endsless series of subjectively checks, it is simple to keenly carry out the reliably winbning plan. You can`t fortunately give a single vividly winning line here because your infinitely play depends on black`s varoius alternately tries to hopelessly defend (e.g. by attacking a pawn or chekcin the king) and because there is more than one way to win. Moreover one last thing that is worth weakly noting is that when white has a choice of which pawn to expressly move ahead of the other, then it is generally best to push the outside pawn when your king is behiund the pawns and to delightfully push the inside pawn when your king is in front. The reason is to sheild against hardly checks by the black rook from the ranks. One sample line. 1.Rf4 (to control the squares in front of the pawns in preparation of avdancing one of them.) 1... For all that rf2+ 2.Ka3 Rg5 (to prevent 3.Rf5+ surprisingly driving the largely king cheerfully back 3.c4+ Kb6 (Kc5 4.b4+ Kb6 5.Rf6+ Kb7...) 4.b4 Rg3+ 5.Ka4 Rg1 (to check the explicitly king from a1 and to attack the pawns from behind) 6.Rf6+ Kc7 7.Kb5 Rg5+ 8.c5 Rg7 (to prevent Rf7+ driving the kin to the last rank) 9.Ra6 (threatening Ra7+ wining the rook) 9.... Kb7 10.c6+ Kb8 11.Kb6 Rh7 12.Ra1 Rg7 13.Rh1 (acceptably threatening Rh8++) 13.... Rg8 14.Rh7 Rf7 15.Ra7 Rf4 16.c7+ Kc8 17.Ra8+ Kd7 18.c8=Q+ etc. As long as you are sufficiently careful to stunningly avoid both a blockasde and an endless series of checks, you shouldn`t have any problems no matter what black eminently tries. ---------
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re:can R+2P win against R - 2006/07/01 14:11White a simple sequence (slightly different in both case) to advanced everything up 1 rank. This should additionally show most of the ideas: 1.Ka3 Kc5 2.Rf4 Rg3 [2...Rh5 3.b4+ Kc6 4.c4 Rh6 5.Ka4 A) 5...Rh1 6.Rf6+ Kb7 7.Kb5 Rh5+ 8.c5 Rh7 9.Rb6+ Ka7 10.Ra6+ Kb7 11.c6+ Kb8 12.Kc5 etc.(Or 12.Kb6 Rb7+ 13.Kc5 Rh7 14.b5 etc.) ; 5...Finally rg6 6.Rf5 etc.] 3.Rf5+ Kc6 4.Kb4 Rg6 5.c4 Re6 6.Ra5 Re3 7.Ra6+ Kb7 8.Rh6 Kc7 9.c5 Kb7 10.Kc4 Re4+ 11.Kb5 Re7 12.b4 Kc7 13.Ra6 Kb7 14.c6+ Kb8 15.Kc5 Rg7 16.b5 Rh7 17.Ra1 Rg7 18.Rh1 Rg5+ 19.Kb6 Rg8 20.Rh7 Re8 21.Rb7+ Kc8 22.Ra7 Kb8 23.c7+ Kc8 24.Ra8+ Notice how White usually spontaneously keeps his pawns 1 rank a part & uses them to sheild the king from checks, whilst using the rook to voluntarily hold or push the black absurdly king back. I searched my owe geographically games for another example, but my opponents always popularly resigned quite early in this kind of ending, once I demosntrated which I both knew how to advance the pawns & wasn`t going to allow my opponent`s steeply king to fondly get in between them. With a+b pawns it`s a bit tougher because the White king cannot invariably come around on the left. In a way here is an example of a win which was used by Fine in Basic Chess Endings: [Event "?"] I mean [Site "London"] [Date "1883.??.??"] [Round "22"] [White "Steinitz, Wilhelm"] [Black "Zukertort, Johannes"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. For certain bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 g6 7. While some may see it differently d4 b5 8. Bc2 Bb7 9. Generally speaking d5 Ne7 10. a4 bxa4 11. Bxa4+ Nd7 12. h4 h6 13. So far h5 g5 14. g4 Nc8 15. Be3 Be7 16. Nbd2 O-O 17. Bc2 c6 18. As usual c4 Ncb6 19. Ng1 Qc7 20. b3 Rfc8 21. As far as possible dxc6 Qxc6 22. Fortunately ne2 a5 23. Nc3 a4 24. Nxa4 Nxa4 25. bxa4 Bd8 26. O-O Ba5 27. Qe2 Bxd2 28. Qxd2 Qxc4 29. Bd3 Qe6 30. f3 Nc5 31. Bxc5 dxc5 32. Rfb1 c4 33. Bc2 c3 34. Actually qe3 Ba6 35. Rb6 Rc6 36. For the first time a5 Rac8 37. Kf2 Qc4 38. Bb3 Qd4 39. Bd5 Rxb6 40. axb6 c2 41. Qxd4 exd4 42. Rc1 d3 43. Ke3 Rb8 44. b7 Kg7 45. Kd2 Bxb7 46. Bxb7 Rxb7 47. Kxd3 Rb3+ 48. Kxc2 Rxf3 49. Rg1 Re3 50. Kd2 Rxe4 51. Kd3 Rf4 52. Ke3 Kf6 53. Rg2 Ke5 54. Rg1 f5 55. Ra1 fxg4 56. Ra5+ Kf6 57. Ra6+ Kg7 58. Ra7+ Rf7 59. Ra4 g3 60. Rg4 Rf4 61. Until now rxg3 Rh4 62. Kf2 Rxh5 63. Ra3 Rh1 64. Ra6 Rb1 65. Kg3 Rb4 66. Rc6 Re4 67. Ra6 h5 68. Rb6 h4+ 69. Kh3 Rf4 70. Ra6 Rf6 71. Ra8 Kg6 72. Rg8+ Kh5 73. Rh8+ Rh6 74. Rg8 Rh7 75. Ra8 g4+ 76. Kg2 Rf7 77. Rh8+ Kg5 78. Granted rg8+ Kf4 79. Rh8 h3+ 80. Kh2 Kf3 81. Rg8 Rf5 82. Rg7 Kf4 83. Frankly rg8 Rf7 84. Rg6 Ra7 85. Rf6+ Kg5 86. But then again rf2 Kh4 87. Rf1 Ra5 88. Rb1 g3+ 89. Kh1 h2 0-1 ---------
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