Do you think the Queen vs Rook endgame is harder than Bishop and knight?

Do you think your blog is coming in 48h? Because I really hope so

I've never had to perform either in a game before, but I think that Queen vs Rook seems to be a lot harder to manage.

The Bishop and Knight mate involves almost zero counterplay from the opposing side because it's just the king, so all you have to do is memorize a few patterns and you're good to go.

On the other hand, a Queen vs Rook endgame has plenty of ways to go sideways because the rook's existence gives the opposing side a lot of defensive and counterattacking options, so you have to be much more careful.

Earlier( a week ago) I said that I didn't know how to do Q v R and that it Bishop and knight mate would be harder. I now started learning Q vs R on a chessable course and it is way harder than B and N.

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If you are learning the Q v R ending, I would recommend looking up the online video series by Derek Grimmell.

Practicing this against a computer can be challenging as it knows how to play strong defense and make things difficult. In practical play few players know how to play strong defenses, which makes winning this endgame easier.

KBN vs K is LIGHTYEARS EASIER than KQ vs KR.

That’s a very good question if you have a bishop and knight endgame it would be impossible to checkmate the so the queen and rook endgame is possible to checkmate the king

Bishop + Knight checkmate is possible though; it’s just difficult to learn. You can see me do 5 of these B+N checkmates in under a minute: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v_ox8Ea0aqE

Here is example. I don't believe it is the fewest moves as I have some slight trouble forcing to the wrong corner in the fewest moves sometimes, but once I have you in the wrong corner it is easy peasy. There are actually 2 methods. The W-method, describing the knight's maneuver while dragging the king from wrong to right corner, which is what this example is, and the shrinking triangles method, which I do not know.

Q vs R definitely

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QvR is way harder. so hard that ill never take the time to learn it probably. B+N takes a few hours at most

Q vs R is really tough; so much so, that against engines, I’m not that confident in my ability to convert either. From the resource-gathering I’ve done, this video of mine is what I believe to be the best starting off point and the video is under 20 minutes. It’s going to take lots of practice and pattern recognition from here, but this offers the main themes I’m aware of for this endgame:

https://youtu.be/WdbS6hA5Rak?si=0n4G_LLUr-r7GkBA

Yes, I still can't do it against the computer, but bishop and knight I somehow mastered after learning only 1 pattern. Bishop and Knight forcing the king to the edge of the board into said pattern is much easier than the complex zugzwang calculations required in Queen vs Rook. Bishop and Knight I can beat the computer in under 40 moves nearly every time.

Also, btw you saw the link to a blog that I made explaining the procedure, right?

When you have perfect tactic, the win rate of queen side is around 80% actually tbh