Activate your king. A likely continuation is 1...Kf5 2.Rd6 Rg6 3.Kd1 Ke4 4.Kc2 Rc7+ 5.Kd1 Rc3 6.Re6+ Kxd4 7.Re7 f5 8.Rd7+ Ke5 9.Re7+ Re6 10.Rxe6+ Kxe6 11.Re1 Ra3 12.Ke2 Rxa4 and Black is winning.
The 2R vs 2R ending that I lost..
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What about ...Rg4 ?
jengaias wrote:
The plan should be getting your rook fast to e4 that would release Re7 from guarding duty and Rh7 with mating threats could follow.Against vertical checks you could guard with Re5 and the doubled pawns would be very effective in this case.
This is a sample and not necessarily the best moves.
Looks like this is the best idea for black...Get the king to d3..
Jun 21, 2016
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The general rule of playing endgames says:
Activate your pieces in descending order.
As rooks are stronger than the king a move like Rh5 looks pretty natural...
zeitnotakrobat wrote:
The general rule of playing endgames says:
Activate your pieces in descending order.
As rooks are stronger than the king a move like Rh5 looks pretty natural...
Thanks for the tip!!
Hi good laik
It looks to me as if Black should be way better in the initial position. Your king is a very powerful piece, so 1...Kf5 suggests itself. After you get in Ke4 and play f5, your king is a beast, his is a cowering mouse! Black has great winning chances
In double rook endgames, checkmate plays a big factor. In this sense, 1. ... Kf5 is screaming to be played. Even after 2. Rd6 I'd be very, very seriously considering 2. ... Ke4 to play 3. ... Kd3. That just looks like a winning position to me and if white does manage to trade 1 set of rooks, my passed pawn will be ready to queen with my king's help. If I had no time, I'd play this way. If I did have time, it's time to hunker down and calculate.
This is the ending in Karnataka state open that I lost because I chose a slow strategy and my opponent generated counterplay faster... I was playing black..
Black to move from this position...What strategy/idea should black chose?