So 5. Bxd8 Kg7 6. Re8 what do you play after …Kf7? By the way R vs K is a technical draw (so not the solution here, even if difficult to defend for Black).
Bf6 Kh7
Rg7 Kh6 (Kh8 loses to a discovered check)
Then the knight is pinned and the black king is stuck on the H file, so the white king can move up and trade down to K R vs. K? You’d just have to make sure you don’t get forked by a knight check when moving up.
But that seems too simple so I’m probably missing something.
Rf6+?
You mean Bf6+? That’s the correct first move. How do you continue after …Kh7?
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All good so far, but the line continues. Black still has a tricky defensive idea up its sleeve.
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After 4…Nc6 5. Bxd8 Black has a nifty intermediate move which is still losing but makes things a bit less simple.
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So 5. Bxd8 Kg7 6. Re8 what do you play after …Kf7? By the way R vs K is a technical draw (so not the solution here, even if difficult to defend for Black).
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Yeah I’ve tried in a chess app with the AI difficulty set to max, the knight almost immediately ends up winning your rook and forcing a draw
I’m no good at endgames bit but I assume it’s…
Bf6 Kh7 Rg7 Kh6 (Kh8 loses to a discovered check) Then the knight is pinned and the black king is stuck on the H file, so the white king can move up and trade down to K R vs. K? You’d just have to make sure you don’t get forked by a knight check when moving up.
But that seems too simple so I’m probably missing something.
The problem is that the knight can unpin itself, giving White no time to move the king up like that.