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June 10th, 2010 at 10:51 am

Answer To Chess Endgame Puzzle #58

The answer is for black to play R/b-e8.  After that, white must lose a rook.

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    As an alternate solution, how about RxR It provides the same results, but allows the rook to protect the pawn, giving the king a little more movement.

    Mitchell on August 11th, 2010
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    Mitchell,

    RxR doesn’t work because it merely exchanges rooks whereby the correct answer wins a rook.

    Dave

    Onchessstrat on August 11th, 2010

 

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