Nice and subtle! I feel black 1...Bc6 is also a nice an instructive variation, then white can win with 2. Rh8 h1:q 3 Rh1 Bh1 4 Bf3 winning the king and pawn ending, isn't it?
Excellent excellent thought process. I love the thought process of why we have to move King to a1 and then attack with the initial variation. Your puzzles definitely make one a better player, I dont doubt it at all. Thank you very much and God bless you.
I thought rook to D8 was a good start. Nothing can stop rook to D1 next, except black bishop to A4, but then the black bishop can no longer pin the white bishop to the king. So bishop to f3 is available. So the pawn can be blocked and the end game will have white one rook ahead with no chance of promotions.
This looks like a draw to me. 1. Ra8, kb2 / 2. Rb8, kc2 / 3. Bf5, Kc3 / 4. Rb1, Bc6 Then promote the pawn and force the Rook to take it and then the Bishop takes the Rook. There are some other variants but they all seem to end the same way as far as i can see. I could be wrong obviously, i just can't see how white wins. In the video the black King goes straight for the pawn in one of the losing scenarios which means the white Bishop is still in the position where it is protected by the king when it is put in the middle. But the way it is done here, the white Bishop can't protect h1 because it is no longer next to the king when it is protecting the diagonal a8-h1.
After 1.Ra8, isn't 1...Bc6 a much stronger move? Then after 2.Ra1, 2....Kb2 threatens both the rook and the pawn on c3, while a1 is still covered by the bishop. And answering with 2.Bf3 would not help either, because it can be taken with check, followed by promoting with check. So what is a better answer?
Ok: After 1.Ra8 Bc6 2. Ra1+ Kb2 comes 3. Bf3! and capturing the bishop would only bring the white King closer to the black pawn, so that the black king has not time to take the rook on a1. 3...BxBf3 4.KxBf3 KxRa1 5.Kg2 Kb2 but the white pawn runs.
Oh, how did I miss this!? This is a great sideline that I should have covered but I totally missed it. After Bc6 white plays Rh8! This allows black to promote but we can sacrifice the rook and win. The full variation: Ra8, Bc6, Rh8, h1=Q, Rxh1, Bxh1, Bf3! and black cannot stop the white pawn on c3 to go all the way and promote.
@@Chess-strategy Thanks for clearing this up! 2.Rh8 indeed does the trick, and then, I like how the "victorious" black bishop on h1 cannot escape and must be exchanged. Nice!
That scenario white could have gotten out of by moving the Rook to h8 instead of the check. It is explained further down in this comment section. What i would have like to seen is what happens at 3:55 if black moves the king to c2. In the video he just says that black has to avoid white squares but moving the king to c2 there seems to end in a draw.
At 5:10, why not have white move Bf5? Black promotes pawn, then Rb1 for check (protected by Bf5), and queen takes rook, bishop takes queen, king takes bishop, then white pawn runs to promote and win. A bloodbath, but it works, no?
Technically there's a world where he underpromotes to knight, forks you, and you're so surprised that you blunder into a draw by forgetting to save the pawn?
Instead of putting the rook on h8 once the king is on a1, wouldn’t going to d8, with the intent of going to d1 also work? The white king covers d1 so if the pawn promotes, it’s a fork, and if the black king moves instead, the rook is still in time to stop the pawn.
@@chaffsalvothat makes sense. And you can’t sidestep with Kf2 because the bishop would control d1 and prevent the fork, and KxB means promoting with check which is obviously bad.
Nice and subtle!
I feel black 1...Bc6 is also a nice an instructive variation, then white can win with 2. Rh8 h1:q 3 Rh1 Bh1 4 Bf3 winning the king and pawn ending, isn't it?
Yes, exactly! I totally missed this great side variation, it should have been included in the video.
Wow, that's brilliant. I wish I could see such things.
I like that what looked good at the start was actually good after a few moves. 👍
Excellent excellent thought process. I love the thought process of why we have to move King to a1 and then attack with the initial variation. Your puzzles definitely make one a better player, I dont doubt it at all. Thank you very much and God bless you.
Your chess scenarios do my head in every day, but alas, I still keep coming back for more. It's addictive & I WILL get better!
Thank you so much for the studies - it gives me great joy every evening. And more and more I'm trying and actually succeeding to solve them.
Very good :)
Took me awhile...
Tricky draw traps...
I thought rook to D8 was a good start. Nothing can stop rook to D1 next, except black bishop to A4, but then the black bishop can no longer pin the white bishop to the king. So bishop to f3 is available. So the pawn can be blocked and the end game will have white one rook ahead with no chance of promotions.
This looks like a draw to me.
1. Ra8, kb2 / 2. Rb8, kc2 / 3. Bf5, Kc3 / 4. Rb1, Bc6
Then promote the pawn and force the Rook to take it and then the Bishop takes the Rook.
There are some other variants but they all seem to end the same way as far as i can see.
I could be wrong obviously, i just can't see how white wins.
In the video the black King goes straight for the pawn in one of the losing scenarios which means the white Bishop is still in the position where it is protected by the king when it is put in the middle. But the way it is done here, the white Bishop can't protect h1 because it is no longer next to the king when it is protecting the diagonal a8-h1.
After 1.Ra8, isn't 1...Bc6 a much stronger move? Then after 2.Ra1, 2....Kb2 threatens both the rook and the pawn on c3, while a1 is still covered by the bishop. And answering with 2.Bf3 would not help either, because it can be taken with check, followed by promoting with check. So what is a better answer?
Ok: After 1.Ra8 Bc6 2. Ra1+ Kb2 comes 3. Bf3! and capturing the bishop would only bring the white King closer to the black pawn, so that the black king has not time to take the rook on a1. 3...BxBf3 4.KxBf3 KxRa1 5.Kg2 Kb2 but the white pawn runs.
Oh, how did I miss this!? This is a great sideline that I should have covered but I totally missed it. After Bc6 white plays Rh8! This allows black to promote but we can sacrifice the rook and win.
The full variation: Ra8, Bc6, Rh8, h1=Q, Rxh1, Bxh1, Bf3! and black cannot stop the white pawn on c3 to go all the way and promote.
Hmm... But what after 1.Ra1 Bc6 2. Ra1+ Kb2 3.Bf3 Bb5+ 4. K anywhere KxRa1, and white will not win???
Fantastic analysis. Kudos to you.
@@Chess-strategy Thanks for clearing this up! 2.Rh8 indeed does the trick, and then, I like how the "victorious" black bishop on h1 cannot escape and must be exchanged. Nice!
I would have liked to see the Ra8, bc6 variation. White can still provide a check, but it is hard to avoid a draw with black controlling h1.
That scenario white could have gotten out of by moving the Rook to h8 instead of the check. It is explained further down in this comment section.
What i would have like to seen is what happens at 3:55 if black moves the king to c2.
In the video he just says that black has to avoid white squares but moving the king to c2 there seems to end in a draw.
Now this one is really wonderful. 😃
1)Ra8 & with Ra1 plan h2 pawn can be handled to win
At 5:10, why not have white move Bf5? Black promotes pawn, then Rb1 for check (protected by Bf5), and queen takes rook, bishop takes queen, king takes bishop, then white pawn runs to promote and win. A bloodbath, but it works, no?
Beautiful logical study.
Slightly flawed though.
Moving the king to c2 at 3:55 would end in a draw instead.
Technically there's a world where he underpromotes to knight, forks you, and you're so surprised that you blunder into a draw by forgetting to save the pawn?
That is a sooo beautiful end game study well done 😂
Instead of putting the rook on h8 once the king is on a1, wouldn’t going to d8, with the intent of going to d1 also work? The white king covers d1 so if the pawn promotes, it’s a fork, and if the black king moves instead, the rook is still in time to stop the pawn.
Black plays BxB (check) if Rook to D8. Then pawn promotes
@@chaffsalvothat makes sense. And you can’t sidestep with Kf2 because the bishop would control d1 and prevent the fork, and KxB means promoting with check which is obviously bad.
Im so happy! I finally got one!
I been seeing a lot of your problems lately and im happy to say this its the first one i solved myself
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