Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 11:53:26 11/13/02
http://www.chesscafe.com/Dvoretsky/dvoretsky.htm
Endgame Training:
Expert Use of the Rooks
I invite readers to solve the following rook endgames (allow an hour
to an hour and a half for all six positions). Only the first few
examples will be simple (although even there, it will not be hard to
go wrong); after that, your task will become more and more difficult.
Don’t be unhappy if there are some positions you just can’t solve.
Serious consideration of these problems, followed by a comparison
of your ideas with the answers (which are, in my opinion, both
interesting and pretty) will undoubtedly be to your benefit.
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Diagram 1 shows a very interesting and well-known study by
G. Nadareishvili, 1961. [to be solved without tablebases, of course]
[D]8/K5p1/8/8/7p/7k/8/6R1 w
1 Rg5!!
Black is playing for stalemate. In order to gain time for the king to
approach, White must prevent the g-pawn from advancing two
squares. That is why 1 Kb6? g5!= is inaccurate.
1...Kh2 2 Kb6 h3 3 Kc5 Kh1 4 Kd4 h2 5 Ke3 g6 6 Rg3 g5
7 Kf2 g4 8 Ra3 g3+ 9 Kxg3 Kg1 10 Ra1#
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