Needing to promote to a knight to avoid stalemate.
What are some of your rarest endgames you've found yourself in?
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wanmokewan wrote:
That's an interesting scenario for sure. Ever had to underpromote to a Bishop in order to avoid getting checkmated outright?
Needing to promote to a knight to avoid stalemate.
2 Bishops endgame. (I won)
Was it a forced mate? And no, I've never had to promote to a bishop although in that situation I could have. I just couldn't promote to a queen or rook.
LM_player wrote:
I love the two Bishop mate!!
2 Bishops endgame. (I won)
I also forgot I had to mate with Bishop and Knight with King vs solo King!
wanmokewan wrote:
I have had to once or twice underpromote to a Bishop. A couple times to a Knight as well.
Was it a forced mate? And no, I've never had to promote to a bishop although in that situation I could have. I just couldn't promote to a queen or rook.
WEIRDEST ONE! I ended up winning. I can't remember if we both had a Knight and 2 or 3 pawns or if it was a Rook and 2 or 3 pawns, but take what we had in common, and here was the imbalance:
W: Q and 4 extra pawns
B: R, 2B, and N
I had Black and won.
As for the basic endings, I've had them all. In almost 2700 OTB tournament games, I've had:
BNK vs K (once on each side)
BBK vs K (once on winning side)
Lucena's position (At least half a dozen times on the winning side)
Philidor's draw (At least 25 to 30 times on the drawing side, maybe a few with the pawn - usually I know it's a draw before that happens)
Q vs BBN w/ pawns (I had the Q, barely drew!)
RN vs BBP w/ pawns (I had the Bishops and won)
I had my e-pawn vs two knights. My opponent didn't want to suffer driving my king into a corner and offered a draw. And I don't know why all the engines in the world say the stronger side wins in positions like that.
ThrillerFan wrote:
Nice!! Some extremely rare endgames indeed!
WEIRDEST ONE! I ended up winning. I can't remember if we both had a Knight and 2 or 3 pawns or if it was a Rook and 2 or 3 pawns, but take what we had in common, and here was the imbalance:
W: Q and 4 extra pawns
B: R, 2B, and N
I had Black and won.
As for the basic endings, I've had them all. In almost 2700 OTB tournament games, I've had:
BNK vs K (once on each side)
BBK vs K (once on winning side)
Lucena's position (At least half a dozen times on the winning side)
Philidor's draw (At least 25 to 30 times on the drawing side, maybe a few with the pawn - usually I know it's a draw before that happens)
Q vs BBN w/ pawns (I had the Q, barely drew!)
RN vs BBP w/ pawns (I had the Bishops and won)
tired_of_ignorance wrote:
That is crazy!
I had my e-pawn vs two knights. My opponent didn't want to suffer driving my king into a corner and offered a draw. And I don't know why all the engines in the world say the stronger side wins in positions like that.
tired_of_ignorance wrote:
I had my e-pawn vs two knights. My opponent didn't want to suffer driving my king into a corner and offered a draw. And I don't know why all the engines in the world say the stronger side wins in positions like that.
Normally, 2 knights vs a king is a draw. best the stronger side can do is stalemate.
But if the weaker side has a pawn, the strong side can unblock the pawn, and give his opponent moves to avoid stalemate. and then complete the mating net.
not easy at all though.
Probably the following game. It took me over 80 moves to convert the Q vs. 2 minor pieces. It's a very tough endgame to make progress in. There was a method to my madness, but it look a very long time.
chuddog wrote:
I actually played s game against the computer and the endgame was my Rook and about three pawns versus the Bishop pair and their three pawns. Was interesting for sure!! Wow that's a tough endgame you played as well as that Black King had a nice little fortress going on with the Knight, Bishop and pawns to hide behind.
Probably the following game. It took me over 80 moves to convert the Q vs. 2 minor pieces. It's a very tough endgame to make progress in. There was a method to my madness, but it look a very long time.
Q+K v.s R+K
varelse1 wrote:
That sounds like a nightmare scenario m Or should I say Knightmare?
tired_of_ignorance wrote:
I had my e-pawn vs two knights. My opponent didn't want to suffer driving my king into a corner and offered a draw. And I don't know why all the engines in the world say the stronger side wins in positions like that.
Normally, 2 knights vs a king is a draw. best the stronger side can do is stalemate.
But if the weaker side has a pawn, the strong side can unblock the pawn, and give his opponent moves to avoid stalemate. and then complete the mating net.
not easy at all though.
I actually had a B+N+K vs K ending TWICE. And my opponents resigned in both cases. They believed in me, I guess.
Definitely my game with five white knights.
For me so far since I've been playing Chess my rarest endgame scenarios I've found myself in have been Queen vs Knight, Bishop vs Rook, Rook vs Knight and Bishops of opposite colors. How about you fellow Chess players?