lasagnaa wrote:
Or a draw?
http://www.shredderchess.com/online-chess/online-databases/endgame-database.html
Look it up. I did.
Rook and knight vs rook, Is it a win?
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lasagnaa wrote:
Or a draw?
Depends.
Efim Umnov has published a thick book (320 pages) on R+N vs R endings, some thirty-something years ago (I own the 1983 print). About 30 pages of the book are about pawnless R+B vs R endings.
The ending is a draw, and easier than R+B vs R, but certainly quite more diffucult than most people think.
chessmicky wrote:
For average players like me all these "simple" endgames are a lot tougher than you would think, particularly when the clock is ticking
"For example" you dont want your King on the inside of your Knight near the corner. And you NEVER want your Knight on g2.
harryz wrote:
Draw. Look at todays game for proof
You should tell that to Judit, who lost this against Kasparov, Ivanchuk, who lost it against Karpov, Onischuk, who lost it against Rodriguez, Quesada, who lost it against Ostrovsky, Kuzubov, who lost it against Zhigalko, Erwin L'Ami, who lost it against Carlsen... should I go on?
"a thick book (320 pages)"
Lol, for a chess book, that is thick.
Kind of sad that I can finish an 800 page book in less than 48 hours yet a 100 page chess book takes me a month :(
913Glorax12 wrote:
"a thick book (320 pages)"
Lol, for a chess book, that is thick.
Kind of sad that I can finish an 800 page book in less than 48 hours yet a 100 page chess book takes me a month :(
When I read Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" many years ago, I could not take more than a couple of pages per day. Way thicker than any chess book I've ever read... 
Or a draw?