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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Rook Endgames - Lesson 8 - Cutting off the King

In this lesson you will find an important situation that will recur time in again in numerous endgame. Not wasting any word lets jump into it.

Cutting off the King


It should be said that this sort of race is not untypical in rook endings. Kings do end up on opposite sides of the board. One reason for this is that a king may need to travel a distance to eliminate enemy pawns in order to create a 'passer' of its own.
Another possibility is that a king makes a decision to journey up the board in order to help promote a passed pawn. That is often necessary with an enemy rook behind the pawn, and a typical outcome is that the king forces the enemy rook to sacrifice itself for the pawn. This gain in material, however, leaves the king offside, and then the long trip back starts. The big question is whether the king gets back in time to halt the opponent's pawn without having to give up its own rook for it. Clearly in this example it proved a bridge too far.
However, sometimes opportunities are missed and on move one the useful 'cut off' technique could have been employed in the form of 1 Rg5!!. See below.

 
That it ...Another one next time. Stay Tuned!

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