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vancura endgame
An interesting position was just posted. Luxcat could turn it into an interesting problem by giving a stipulation.
May 20, 2019
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#287
Luxkat wrote:
Obviously white starts and wins
Oh my #368 puzzle was cool 
It was tricky and took me a while I will admit though. I don't want to give away spoilers to this puzzle yet; I don't want to ruin it for others so fast. I think I partially got lucky, but I think I only found it because I coincidentally have recently been studying Knight + pawn v. Knight endings.
Just curious where this puzzle came from though. Did you just invent it, or is it a famous endgame study that I hadn't previously seen?
SetoKaiba wrote: Just curious where this puzzle came from though. Did you just invent it, or is it a famous endgame study that I hadn't previously seen?
It is a 1938 study by Vitaly Halberstadt.
rychessmaster1 wrote:
What about my study?
To the best of my knowledge, it is a 2019 study by R. Amburgy.
rychessmaster1 wrote:
What do you think the solution might be?
Here is the key move in white text: Nxg6 . It seems the game could go on for at least 30 more moves, but White should have a decisive advantage after about eight more moves.
May 20, 2019
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#292
thanks for the information n9531l1, I found this endgame really interesting
Kf1
4. Rxe2 fxe2+ 5. Ke1 Bxf2+ 6. Kxe2. (Black would have done better with 2...Re2.)
You're a little off there. Black can't play 2...f3+ because Black already played 1...f3+. What I said is, after 2. Kf1, Black would do better with Re2 than with Rxe1+.
After 2...Re2, what is the winning line?
That works. Even better is 3. Nxf8+. No white pawns are lost and White quickly gets to an easy R vs B win, instead of having to play a tricky R+R+N vs R+R endgame.
fun
The Philidor position, because it has saved many lost games for me.
interesing