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which is beter: queen or 2 rooks/
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It depends on the position.
In more closed crampy endgames, with multiple pawn islands, 2 rooks are superior.
In more open endgames, the Queen is superior. 2 Rooks can co-ordinate well, but they need targets to be able to get an advantage rolling for you. Conversely, the Queen is good at doing multiple tasks by itself, defending, attacking for example at the same time, but if there's too much material on the board it's cramped and its full power is not felt.
Generally Queen vs 2 Rook endgames are drawish if the position is relatively standard.
I was playing the lowest computer to see how much I would win by, when by the end I had amassed 5 queens and winning 30+ pieces when in was called a stalemate! 😂
Rooks are the best
the rooks because hey maybe you can still castle
Dec 31, 2021
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#29
On post # 23 above . . .
I ended getting a draw with a Queen vs 2 Rooks . . .
But i went up 5 rating points . . .
My mistake was Whites move # 20 check with my bishop!
Here is the link to the game . . .
https://www.chess.com/game/daily/367622587
Yeah
Jan 8, 2022
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#34
The following table might be of interest. Figures taken from syzygy-tables.info site for the endgames KRRKQ, KRRPKQP, KRRNKQN etc. with one identical piece added to each side.
(The excess RR wins are the reported % RR wins less the % Q wins, so based on reported total number of positions.)
Extra pieces Excess RR wins % Draws %
- 4.4 36.9
PP 5.8 31.5
NN 8.5 29.5
BB 4.7 26.9
RR 10.0 15.6
QQ 14.8 10.2
So RR v Q has a slight edge in a straight fight from a random position and the edge increases with the addition of the same material to each side limited to one piece (by the 7 piece limit on the site). Roughly speaking the increase gets larger the greater the notional value of the pieces added (with a glitch in the case of added bishops). The drawing chances decrease correspondingly.
But if you add a bishop to one side and a knight to the other you'd rather have the bishop.
Extra pieces Excess RR wins %
NB -3.1
BN 14.9
In KRRNKQB the side with the queen actually has the better chance with a position taken at random and the chances for the side with the rooks are slightly better in KRRBKQN than in KRRQKQQ.
It might be a reasonable guess that the same applies to random positions with identical extra material also when the material is more than one piece each, but of course positions occurring in chess games aren't random.
I prefer two rooks, if you know how to use them.
I'd say two rooks as it's easier to get checkmate with them compared to the queen. Also castling.
It depends,
If the person who has two rooks had somehow exposed their king the person with the queen would potentially be better off because the queen could possibly fork the king and rook and then the game would collapse. If the rooks stay on the same file then it’s an even position. If the rooks are on the seventh or second rank and the king is on the back rank then the person with the rooks would be winning in most cases. Overall it’s even with strong play.
If the person who has two rooks had somehow exposed their king the person with the queen would potentially be better off because the queen could possibly fork the king and rook and then the game would collapse. If the rooks stay on the same file then it’s an even position. If the rooks are on the seventh or second rank and the king is on the back rank then the person with the rooks would be winning in most cases. Overall it’s even with strong play.
I say two rooks are better when together, right?