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Interesting Chess Puzzle #4

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DiamondXmen

A more interesting puzzle for you all and it's approachable.

White to move and force Draw:

Arisktotle

Wrong - check the engine.

Irongine

can't black sacrifice a rook, infiltrate the back ranks and blow the pawn structure wide open?

Irongine

Computers despise draws unless it's the literal only option

ChessDude009

This puzzle is wrong, you missed a piece

Arisktotle
ChessDude009 wrote:

This puzzle is wrong, you missed a piece

Phew ... if that were just the only error cry.png

Irongine
Arisktotle wrote:
ChessDude009 wrote:

This puzzle is wrong, you missed a piece

Phew ... if that were just the only error

I presume the other error is that there is a easy way to blow this position open with a rook sacrifice, right? or that this position is literally impossible?

Irongine

In analysis when the dust settles, rook to d7 has the response exd7+ by the computer despite this being bad, because it destroys the stalemate

 

DiamondXmen

Oh I didn't notice that... Oops, probably should've only put 1 Rook then.

ninja888

Black can simply play Ka5  on move 2 and win