pugugly001: hardonebattle:deviantminxy: So here is an interesting position I came across the other d
pugugly001: hardonebattle: deviantminxy: So here is an interesting position I came across the other day. With white to move, who is winning? Love the blog White has a *slight* advantage. Though this is suspiciously close to a deadlock. Because while the Rook has no leverage, no way to gain an upper hand, thus the pawn and potential conversion (or using to pin a careless king), ….ultimately……the deeper truth of the matter is that black and trade rook for pawn (not logical normally, but I specialize in thinking outside the box)…..at any time they want, and leave this in effect a stalemate. So I’mma gonna say, strictly speaking, White is winning. But in reality, this situation has a draw/stalemate written all over it. :) Though……..interestingly enough……….. I do see a concept possible where Black king gets all up in the grill of the White king, and works a brilliant (cuz that’s what it’ll take to pull it off) tandem assault that separates the White king from their pawn. Then in that case……White totally get pawned. Actually, parsing it out, I don’t think there’s a winning strategy for black. Black can’t actually stop White from getting a queen, and I’m not sure Black can force a trade. I’m out of practice but … pretty sure. It depends on their original board starting position. If the coordinates are accurate, then yeah, that pawn’s too close to be stopped. But there is no game I’ve ever seen that allowed a black king to make it all the way to the other side of the board like this. Both kings crawling their way to opposite sides of the board seems like something is amiss.I guess it could have been escorting a pawn, but then that rook oughta be a Queen. …..I dunno. -- source link