Black to move. How should Black proceed?
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Black to move. How should Black proceed?
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I think Black can force a perpetual check with his Rook after 1. … Ke3. Perhaps there is a way of winning but I don’t see it.
pwspar, I think you nailed it. Moving the king to g3 or f3 gives white a check and the rest of the black pawns. The mate threat Kf3 and Ra1 is empty and can be adequately parried with Nxg5+ and Rf8 (or, probably better, h4).
Ke3 is the only move to force a draw through perpetual check.
This post is from March 2oo7 and I am posting this , it is September 2007. More than 6 months delay by me. Just wanted to say that this is an important one. I completely missed it.
g6? to secure the Ke3 threat