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Avatar of Graywing13

Recently composed, lacking a good intro.  Any help making one would be greatly appreciated

I also want to exploit the rook-trapped motive more (e.g. have the pawn do an Excelsior, or go up the entire board). Help here would be appreciated as well.

Avatar of Arisktotle

Ah right! Can't promise to find a longer intro. There are other challenges out there in the summer heat. I have seen a number of rook-lock-up studies in my career. Often the rook freely moves into the trap to prevent the pawn from queening eg. in the position [wPa7,wBe5,bRe8] where black may prefer his rook to be locked up after ..Ra8! over being locked out after white's next .Bb8!

As you know I am not an archives expert and wouldn't know where and how to find such endgames. I recall former WC Vasily Smyslov composed a number of bishop promotion studies and vaguely remember one or two contained "piece lock-ups" as well!