• BonifratzOP
      1•1 year ago

      You mean Bf6+? That’s the correct first move. How do you continue after …Kh7?

      • @shoelace
        1•1 year ago

        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.

        • BonifratzOP
          1•1 year ago

          The problem is that the knight can unpin itself, giving White no time to move the king up like that.

          • BonifratzOP
            1•1 year ago

            All good so far, but the line continues. Black still has a tricky defensive idea up its sleeve.

            • @Epicurus0319
              1•1 year ago

              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

              • BonifratzOP
                1•1 year ago

                After 4…Nc6 5. Bxd8 Black has a nifty intermediate move which is still losing but makes things a bit less simple.

                  • BonifratzOP
                    1•1 year ago

                    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).