Black to move. How can Black win this?
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Black to move. How can Black win this?
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1)… Rb5 2)KXh6 Kf7 3)Kh7 RXh5++….
This is hard.
My first guess would be 1.Ke6 since black can’t play 1…Kxp 2. Kf6 and is a win for white in 24 moves according to the tablebase.
If white doesn’t capture the pawn, then blacks king marches to the h-file and captured black’s last pawn. White’s rook check won’t stop that from happening.
Here Yifan can use her King.
Lofei’s Mao Tse-Tung-like Long March yesterday was funny to see but did not result in anything at all. But this black king uses only quicksteps!
Marching the black king d7-c7-b7-a6-a5-a4-a3-a2 then b1=Q seems to me like a sure win.
1….Rb7 2.Kxh6 Kf6 If the rook checks, the ing approaches the pawn while moving out of check.
Let´s see… can the black king not just walk up the a-file and force the white rook to be given away for the b-pawn? What is white gonna do about that?? Neither king nor rook are in a position to do anything effective. greets, jan
1. Ke6 !, Kxh6
2. Kf5 and white wins.
Surprisingly she missed this possibility. Too materialistic route of thinking at this instance?
Erik Fokke
Amsterdam, Netherlands
@eric
The moves you did mention were played:
Ke6 54. Kxh6 Kf5+ 55. Kg7 Kg5 56. Kf7
etc..
So who missed something ?
They missed this “Monty Pyton”-like Funny Walk.
Kd7 Kf7 Kd6 Kf6 Kd5+ Kf5 Kd4 Kg4 Kc3 Kf5 Kc2