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Originally Posted by Dire
I don't really see the point in this. I'm sorry if your software disagrees with me. White has the pleasant choice of either rook+queen vs rook+bishop or rook+bishop vs bishop or a variety of other pleasant endings. And I think white has more than enough to win in all of those, particularly the rook+bishop vs bishop. Black may have some chances of setting up some barricade and possibly squeezing out a draw if he continues to play computer-perfect moves for the next 30 moves - but yeah, that's not going to happen.
Hmm, I don't get the antagonistic response. I can't see how white could make progress in the R+B vs B ending even if black made pretty much random bishop or king moves, not 'computer perfect' moves. Please could you explain how a strong white player would make progress here?
How does white get a rook+queen vs rook+bishop ending here? I'm obviously missing some tactic before the ending that you think is winning for white... I assume after Rf8 you are going to play Rf5, Rxf7; Qxf7+ Qxf7; Rxf7+ Kb6. This is the position that I think is drawn since white always has to leave a piece covering g1 and it's not clear (to me anyway) what his method of making progress is. Obviously if he ever decides to play Rxg2 for some reason the position is immediately drawn since his pawn has the wrong color queening square.
Perhaps there is something better than Rf5? Re7+ Kb6 leads to either the same position in some lines. If you play Rxf7 instead of Qxf7 then I will try something like Qc8 and try to get my queen to h3... at which point I suppose white would have to take a perpetual check, or sac something on g2 but then he has no material advantage.
So I'm not seeing anything better than the R+B vs B ending... I suppose my abysmal play in endings leads me to misevaluate this one I just dont see what white's 'idea' is.
Last edited by Pyromantha; 03-22-2009 at 09:14 AM.