The Lucena Chess Position
Lucena Chess Position
Hi y'all we are going to learn about the Lucena chess position, found by Luis Lucena around 400 years ago. It’s a common chess position in a rook endgame. It’s vital to learn this to become better at chess, which no wonder that it’s so popular.
Understanding it
Well you’re in for a treat because I’m gonna teach you how to play it! So here is a typical chess position commonly found in most rook end games.
So this is the chess position in which the king is behind the pawn and the king can’t move and it is whites turn to move. Now it looks pretty hard to do but there is one simple move to solve it. Checking the king with the rook.
Now when the king moves to e6, whites king can just use blacks king as a shield. If rook moves to a1, well the king can just simply promote. If you’re wondering, “wait, there’s mate next you idiot!” Well when the rook goes to a8 to check, white simply moves the rook to d8 to block the check and white is extremely winning and will definitely win. (Most likely). Now, what happens if white DOESN’T move to e6, but instead c7? Well there is one critical move that white should play which will be the ice breaker of this game. The move will be king to e7. If you wonder why because of rook e1 check, well think again.
The reason why is because the king is zig zagging around climbing a bridge so the rook can come back to f4 to win the game.
The reason why is because the king is zig zagging around climbing a bridge so the rook can come back to f4 to win the game.
Ingenious right? So when YOU play a game with this position, just remember this blog and you’ll thank god(me).
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