12 Oct 06
Game 2561946 I just accepted a draw and was wondering what it would take, if anything was possible to win it. Thanks in advance for any pointers.
12 Oct 06
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Originally posted by strokem1
Game 2561946 I just accepted a draw and was wondering what it would take, if anything was possible to win it. Thanks in advance for any pointers.
It shouldn't be too difficult to win this. You have an extra pawn and it is passed. The idea is to bring your king up to support it and white will get into Zugswang.
For example, 53. .. Ke5, 54. Kg3 .. Ne2+, 55. Kf2 .. Nc1, 56.Ke1 .. d6, 57. Kd1 .. Na2, 58. Ke1 .. Kd4 and its all over for white.
12 Oct 06
Knight endgames where you are down a pawn are extremly hard to draw beacause knights cannot make "pass" moves, moves that maintain basicly the same position(moving a bishop back and forth on the same diagonal is a sort of pass move) in knight endgames moving your knight or your king always gives up sqares that your opponent can occupy and slowly push you back , so you were wrong to accept a draw, your position is easily winning and i belive the best move is Ke5 followed by d3 and infiltrating with the king via d4 c3 or e3 and eating up all the pawns.
12 Oct 06
Originally posted by omulcusobolaniYou are right, of course, but haven't I already given this as an example above.
Knight endgames where you are down a pawn are extremly hard to draw beacause knights cannot make "pass" moves, moves that maintain basicly the same position(moving a bishop back and forth on the same diagonal is a sort of pass move) in knight endgames moving your knight or your king always gives up sqares that your opponent can occupy and slowly push ...[text shortened]... Ke5 followed by d3 and infiltrating with the king via d4 c3 or e3 and eating up all the pawns.
12 Oct 06
Originally posted by Dragon FireSorry I started writing my post when there was no answer to the topic but i was interupted from my writing so the whole post took me about 10 mins to write and I suppose you posted during those 10 minutes.When I saw it was already answered I wanted to edit my post blank but decided not to because i tried to explained why knight endgames are hard to draw.
You are right, of course, but haven't I already given this as an example above.