The crazy piece!

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Aleksander

Hi chess.com players!

The following game show a strngeness, i like it! :-)

The beginning position came from:  Dvoretsky - Filipowicz, Polanica Zdroj 1973.  Anyway i will show you only a small variation from that game.


 

 

 

 

 

 

It's my first post... I hope there aren't mistakes... :-) 


broze
A very similar thing happened in a game with one of my friends!

Aleksander
Hehe, yes! I think so! :-)
Jythier

Why can't the king just take the rook?

Edit:

Stalemate.  Got it.


Jeff_SG

If the king takes the rook it is stalemate.  I don't see how the draw is forced though.  The king can flee from the rooks checks.  To the h-file, for example, at which point the white rook can block the checks.  And if black takes the bishop, white should still be able to pull off the win.  Unless I'm missing something.


sb3700

that was nice broze, my equivalent:


Jeff_SG
Oh, I definitely see it in the game broze posted.  But in the one Aleksander posted I have doubts.
sb3700
I'll agree with you jefe, i hadn't noticed that
Loomis
King William, white missed 6. Rg1. I think black needed to play 5. ... Rh2+.
Loomis

Forgive me for not having clicked all the way to move 22. Smile. I'm just glad you took the time to make the diagram since I'm too lazy.

 

Also, in this kind of position, I think the rook is usually called a super rook (though "crazy" rook has it's own flare). 


Ray_Brooks
That's what happens, when you allow a monkey to play chess, faulty analysis.
Foodle
can't the King escape the Rook if he goes to f5? then, if the rooks checks, the King goes to e6. There, isn't he safe for 1 turn?
Loomis

If the king tries to go to f5 black will check from the f-file. Then when the king goes to e6 black plays Rxf6+. Taking the rook is still stalemate and not taking the rook allows black to play Kxg7 next move. 


Aleksander
np :-)