The only winning configuration I can find involves White's having the king on f8 after a rook check on the e-file. I believe White can force this by the following
EDIT: Ignore this nonsense I just posted.
A question about an interesting endgame...
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dalephilly wrote:
There was no way out, actually. The only reason you were able to win is that your opponent messed up. There is no way to avoid the perpetual checks against proper defense.
I suppose you are right, if the game was played out properly it would be a draw.
But... both of us made some pretty big mistakes. He had his rook on the e-file, with my king on the g-file, and he checked me. So I blocked with the rook, and he couldn't defend against my pawn promotion. So we both blundered.
So I made a bit of mistake on one of my recent games, and I thought it was kind of funny.
Here's the situation, I'm up 2 pawns, and we both have one rook. Should have been an easy win, but I made the mistake of getting too close to his king who was positioned in the corner. If I were to take his rook, it would be stalemate.
Maybe you can find the strategy for white,its not impossible here to avoid stalemate. After he chased me around with his suicidal rook for about 50 moves, I finally realized there was a way out. But if he had realized this sooner, he could have prevented me from winning.
To make the situation more interesting... Assume black has about 30 seconds left on his clock, without any bonus time, and assume my king was already somewhere on the left of the board with his rook somewhere on the D file. How do you think this game would be determined in an actual competition? See if the guy can force the game into the same 3 positions with 30 seconds or less? Say if I had several horus left my on clock, I could wait for him to go to the bathroom? Or try and distract him and then move my king really quickly and hit the time? Or would they automatically draw the game from perpetual check?