Find the draw

This came up as one of the side variations while I was studying tactics. It's a long sequence, and I liked it. There's not many defensive problems, so I thought I might share it.


White to move and draw.

Originally posted by diskamyl
This came up as one of the side variations while I was studying tactics. It's a long sequence, and I liked it. There's not many defensive problems, so I thought I might share it.

[fen]R6R/1r3pp1/4p1kp/3pP3/5PPK/3r1q1P/1PQ5/8 w - - 0 3[/fen]
[b] White to move and draw.[/b]

Originally posted by ivan2908
Is it a stalemate, like white loses all of his pieces and stalemates himself ?

Originally posted by ivan2908
Is it a stalemate, like white loses all of his pieces and stalemates himself ?

Originally posted by heinzkat
Stalemate can 'never' occur, how can you lose or 'stop' the b2 pawn?

Originally posted by diskamyl
This came up as one of the side variations while I was studying tactics. It's a long sequence, and I liked it. There's not many defensive problems, so I thought I might share it.

[fen]R6R/1r3pp1/4p1kp/3pP3/5PPK/3r1q1P/1PQ5/8 w - - 0 3[/fen]
[b] White to move and draw.[/b]

I was thinking something like Rxh6 first, but that just doesn't work. I then came up with 1. f5+ exf5 2. Qc6+ f6 3. Qe8+ Rf7 4. Rxh6+ gxh6 5. Qg8+ perpetual. I played it out on a board and I'm pretty sure that's the solution, unless I missed something.

Originally posted by cyanfish
I was thinking something like Rxh6 first, but that just doesn't work. I then came up with 1. f5+ exf5 2. Qc6+ f6 3. Qe8+ Rf7 4. Rxh6+ gxh6 5. Qg8+ perpetual. I played it out on a board and I'm pretty sure that's the solution, unless I missed something.