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Subject: Re: Rooks and pawns and kings

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:05:37 09/22/03

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On September 22, 2003 at 14:41:03, m.d.hurd wrote:

>On September 22, 2003 at 10:13:06, Mihaly Szalai wrote:
>
>>Endgames are often tricky, take a look at this one:
>>
>>[D]R7/P6p/4k2p/7P/8/8/4K3/r7 b - - 0 3
>>
>>
>>1... Kf6! 2. Rf8+ Kg7! 3. a8=Q Re1+! etc. and black escaped
>>because of the stalemate.
>>Can you show me an engine which recognises this? (With an equal score,
>>if possible and no backward analysis, please.)
>>
>>Mihaly
>
>
>What happens when the king gets to h2, if rook to h1 then queen takes rook.
>
>
>Mike.

No need to get there.
The rook does not need to leave the f file when the black king gets to the g
file.

Uri



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