King & Rook vs King, Rook, & Pawn
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The rook pawn is almost always to hardest one to win with. Many endings that would be won with any other pawns are draws with a rook pawn. And if the enemy king is already controlling the queening square, good luck! Why don’t you post the position?
I found your game and plugged it into shredder. It is a draw.
In these extra pawn scenarios, no matter the File the pawn is on, if the opponent king is in front of it, it is (usually) a draw.
If the pawn is on the 6th, then it depends.
If the pawn is on the 6th, then it depends.
Likely referring to the following game:
You cannot do much with the a or h pawns if the king is in front of it. Even swapping rooks is an easy draw.
You could try putting the rook on the fifth rank and advancing the king to g5 without exchanging pawns at h5, or taking with the king at h5 instead of the pawn. White has a rather easy draw in both cases, but minimal skill is required.
Sharp2Axe wrote:
In these extra pawn scenarios, no matter the File the pawn is on, if the opponent king is in front of it, it is (usually) a draw.
If the pawn is on the 6th, then it depends.
If the pawn is on the 6th, then it depends.
Almost everything in your claim is wrong.
If the opponent king is on the front of the pawn, whatever chances are for a win are associated with the pawn's file. With a pawn at the rook's, or knight's file, even passive defence with the rook on the last rank is sufficient to draw.
Mazetoskylo wrote:
Sharp2Axe wrote:
In these extra pawn scenarios, no matter the File the pawn is on, if the opponent king is in front of it, it is (usually) a draw.
If the pawn is on the 6th, then it depends.
If the pawn is on the 6th, then it depends.
Almost everything in your claim is wrong.
If the opponent king is on the front of the pawn, whatever chances are for a win are associated with the pawn's file. With a pawn at the rook's, or knight's file, even passive defence with the rook on the last rank is sufficient to draw.
Nothing he claimed was wrong, and he did qualify it by saying ‘usually’. It’s true that facing a rook or N pawn the defence is even easier (as you mentioned even passive defence suffices) but even if not, with the defending king in front of the pawn it’s generally drawn and usually when the defender loses it’s due to carelessness in the defence rather than the position having been winning for the extra P.
They had a rook and so did I and I ended up in a draw.
Could not figure out how to move everything up.
Help. I think I should have won that game.