I never get to be the first poster on the Puzzle, so here's my chance!
Sorry, don't see any hope. I can't see any cool attack that would make up for the huge deficit in material. If someone else sees something, I'll be interested!
Would there be a way out for white
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the only thing I can see is to play h2 to let your king have an escape. this will also keep the black bishop on the white squares from checking you.
In this position you're down a rook, a knight, and a pawn with no real chances for counterplay. It's time to resign and start over.
Well, from realistic point of view white ~10 points down. There is no way to win the e1 knight. Even a GM would resign here.
Yes, using the King is important in the endgame, but before advice like that can help, you need to develop an appreciation for even more fundamental chess truths, and improve your ability to look at a position and understand what is going on. I think you need to review basic lessons about the value of material.
The part in blue, is an ongoing project -- we are all trying to improve our ability to understand and evaluate chess positions. Probably the most fundamental thing one sees and understands when evaluating a position is the material... is it balanced or does one side have more?
You should be able to look at the position you gave and see: A) You are down a Rook, a Knight and a Pawn. B)Your rook is threatened with immediate capture; you have no free-captures C) Black's threatened peices are adequately defended. D) You have no meaningful checks and black's king is not exposed. E) Black's pawn structure is solid...
You have two things that you might be able to work with: The black king is not just secure on the back rank -- he's also stuck on the back rank behind pawns and that leads to the possibility of a "back rank mate" -- however his back rank is more than adequately guarded so there is nothing there for you (indeed, you have back rank troubles of your own, as you have noted). Secondly his bishop is undefended... this might also encourage some tactics... but even if there were some tactical shot here that let you win his bishop for free, that would leave you down more than a full rook ... a material disadvantage you should recognize as crushing.
You should understand that to an experienced chess player, the only question to be answered here is: why was this game not resigned moves ago?
It takes much less advantage than black has here to win a chess game. Of course your opponent could make gross mistakes, and then you win, but that doesn't matter. You want to be able to beat players who don't make silly obvious blunders. The first step to doing that is to learning to take care of your material, and to evaluate material advantage/disadvantage adequately.
Learn the value of material. Two pawns is enough to win most games. Sacrifice moves are exciting and beautiful in a large part because they show us that this basic law of chess -- material matters -- has many exceptions for the imaginative skillful accurate player. But if you don't fully appreciate that basic law.. you can't really appreciate the exceptions, or develop the imagination, skill, and accuracy necessary to find them.
I recently finished this game here and I was wondering if anyone could give some advise on the following position.
I guess it's all over now or not ? Would there be a way to survive this ?
My guess was :
If I do Rxe1 he would do Rxe1 (capture my Rook and Checkmate) so I decided to prolong my suffering by doing Rxe8 to capture his rook and prevent that checkmate (The game was over only a few moves later though).
One of the mistakes I made could be not to bring out the King a bit earlier (been reading some stuff from Josh Waistkin who claims it important to activly use the King in the endgame.
Anyways anyone up for some advise ?