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ANNOTATED GAME
A Titanic Endgame Fight! (R+B vs. R)
ethansiegel (1723) vs. clarinetref (1746)
Annotated by: ethansiegel
(1986)
Chess opening: Pirc defence (B07)
ethansiegel (1723) vs. clarinetref (1746)
Annotated by: ethansiegel
(1986)
Chess opening: Pirc defence (B07)
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47... Rh4 |
And of course, if black can exchange rook for rook, or can win my bishop, it's a dead draw. The nice part about an endgame like this in correspondence chess is that you can analyze incredibly deeply! | |||||||||
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48. Bd3 |
Amazingly, the only move that prevents a draw! | |||||||||
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48... Rh3+ 49. Kd2 Rh2+ 50. Be2 |
This is an important concept in this endgame (at least for me), to use the bishop to defend the king from the rook, while using my king and rook to push his king towards the back rank. White has to be careful of black's drawing techniques, where basically all he has to do is get the white rook off the board by whatever means necessary! | |||||||||
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50... Rh8 51. Ke3 Rh3+ 52. Bf3 |
This will force the black king back to the 6th rank now... | |||||||||
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52... Rg3 53. Rc5+ Kd6 54. Rd5+ Ke6 |
Note that Kc6 loses immediately to Rg5 ! | |||||||||
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55. Rh5 Kf6 56. Kf4 |
An important move! Black thinks he'll be okay with Rg1, keeping the option to interpose on g6 open, but I've calculated further... | |||||||||
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56... Rg1 57. Be2 |
! This assures white of pushing black back to the 7th rank! | |||||||||
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57... Re1 58. Rh6+ Kg7 |
It looks like white must abandon the idea of a rook on the 6th rank now, but there's a sequence that allows me to keep it there... | |||||||||
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59. Re6 Kf7 60. Kf5 |
And now the bishop is free to move. Bh5 is threatened now. | |||||||||
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60... Rg1 61. Ra6 Ke7 62. Bd3 Rd1 63. Be4 |
Keeping with the strategy of keeping the bishop close to the king and center, but I overlooked something here... | |||||||||
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63... Rd6 |
Keeping the rook adjacent to the king (i.e., king on the e-file, keep the rook on the d-file) and between his king and my rook will help him defend exquisitely! At this point I realize I need to regroup and try again. | |||||||||
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64. Ra5 Rf6+ 65. Kg5 |
The only way out of the checks. | |||||||||
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65... Rf1 66. Bf5 Rg1+ 67. Bg4 Kd6 68. Kf4 Rf1+ 69. Ke4 Re1+ 70. Kd4 |
Finally, he can't check me any longer! | |||||||||
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70... Rg1 |
? Black had discovered the drawing strategy of allowing his rook to get between his king and my rook; so Rc1 was the move here; this pushes his king towards the back rank again. | |||||||||
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71. Ra6+ Ke7 72. Bf5 Rd1+ 73. Ke5 Re1+ 74. Be4 Rd1 |
This time he remembered. I figure I have to do something about this differently, since Ra7 will get me nowhere. So I calculated a while, and came up with... | |||||||||
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75. Re6+ |
! This forces the king out of the center or towards the back; since Kd7 is met with Rh6! | |||||||||
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75... Kd8 |
I thought Kf7 was more tenacious. | |||||||||
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76. Kf6 |
I can't keep him on the back rank just yet, but this is progressing there... | |||||||||
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76... Rf1+ 77. Bf5 Kc7 78. Ke5 Re1+ 79. Be4 Kd7 |
Otherwise he does go back to the back rank. | |||||||||
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80. Rb6 |
Threatening Rb7 . The best defense to that now appears to be Kc8. | |||||||||
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