Red Hot Pawn Rooks

Featuring again our new Hero RookMan..
This week he faces BishopGirl.

A super study by Karl (Leonid) Kubbel.

A look at Loose Pieces and a trip into the Hall of Horror where White
plays two of the most natural looking moves on the board and is checkmated.

All the games come from 2015

Blog 4

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Featuring again our new Hero RookMan..
This week he faces BishopGirl.

A super study by Karl (Leonid) Kubbel.

A look at Loose Pieces and a trip into the Hall of Horror where White
plays two of the most natural looking moves on the board and is checkmated.

All the games come from 2015

Blog 4

White simply won't play c3 - he'll just leave the bishop attacking the queening square and then win with his two protected passed pawns at his leisure.
e.g.

Yeah once the Bishop covers a1 the win is straightforward.
However there is one silly line..........

I thought of another possible but implausible line after I posted. Something like this:

Originally posted by Data Fly
White simply won't play c3 - he'll just leave the bishop attacking the queening square and then win with his two protected passed pawns at his leisure.
e.g.
[pgn]
[FEN "3N4/8/K7/3k2B1/3p4/p7/2PP4/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]

{--------------
. . . N . . . .
. . . . . . . .
K . . . . . . .
. . . k . . B .
. . . p . . . .
p . . . . . . .
. . P P . . ...[text shortened]... --------------}
1. Nc6 Kxc6 2. Bf6 a2 3. Bxd4 Kd5 4. Ba1 Kc4 5. d4 Kd5 6. Kb6 Kd6 7. c4
[/pgn]

Hi Vivify,

It's OK.. What is worrying is how me and DataFly are quite adept
at finding ways to screw this study up. It's a knack we have.

Why doesn't black simply play Kd5 after capturing the knight?

That's the whole point of the study and what transforms it from a tricky problem where you've got to try and calculate how to stop what looks like an unstoppable pawn into a work of genius: