A very interesting position! lol Practically like something out of a textbook.
To answer your question: no, the extra pawn is worthless. If only you could get your knight to f5! Then you play your rook to a6 (to prevent Black from getting any counterplay by Ra8), take the d6-pawn with your knight and win the game. Yes, Black's bishop is outside of his pawn chain, but it's still very bad indeed, and you are in effect a piece up in such a position (as long as Black can never get his rook into play to assist his bishop).
Unfortunately though as soon as you play Ne3 he simply takes it. If you play Ra6 first (again to keep his rook bottled up) and then allow the knight/bishop trade, the position is as dead as dead can be, with neither player able to get their king into the game. Or you can try Ne3 right away...which could lead to the following: 1 Ne3 Bxe3 2 Kxe3 Ra8 3 Rxd6 Ra3 4 Rxf6 Rxb3+ 5 Ke2 Rxh3 6 d6 Rh2+ 7 Ke3 Rh3+ with a draw (7... Ra2 8 d7 Ra8 9 Rc6).
He could try 1... Ra8 immediately there too (which gets pretty hard to fathom)...
First post in the forums here (outside of daily puzzle) so go easy on me.
Have just finished playing the PC at chess (the standard chess game in Win 7 -- Chess Titans, level 6. I'm interested in looking at this position:
which is where I was, and, being one pawn down, felt it best to push for a stalemate. Well, the PC was having none of it and in the end (having moved the bishop and king back and forth, I the rook Rc6, Rc8, Rc6 seeminly ad nauseum) Black/the PC played f5! The result was a win for me, but I was wondering:
Is the initial position in human vs human chess a draw, or can black sieze the extra-pawn advantage and win?