Sacrifice the exchange for an advanced protecte...

Let's say, the white pawn on d6 with a black pawn on e3 and solidly protected white pawn on e5. Worth the rook for a minor piece?

Originally posted by Kunsoo
Let's say, the white pawn on d6 with a black pawn on e3 and solidly protected white pawn on e5. Worth the rook for a minor piece?

Give the whole position, please.

Originally posted by Kunsoo
Let's say, the white pawn on d6 with a black pawn on e3 and solidly protected white pawn on e5. Worth the rook for a minor piece?

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Give the whole position, please.

It's too hard to visualize/understand what you're trying to say here, Kunsoo. Maybe it'd help if you posted the fen for this game?

... or the game in progress 😉

It was an offline game from years ago and it didn't actually happen because I wimped out and kept the rook, and the game was eventually drawn. I don't remember all the details of the position, but I can dig up the score sheet.

But I would have had a passed pawn. I just wasn't sure I was going to be left with the power to force the pawn home. It was a closed game, which probably would have opened up with a series of exchanges.

My weenieness in that game has haunted me ever since, because it was pretty much a certain draw otherwise.

I'll post a game related to what you're saying when it's finished.