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Posted by alberlie blitzbrain.com 12/15/2005 15:31:38 Play online chess	Subject: Plan in queen vs. rook engame? Message: Hi, I keep messing this up - does anyone have a clear cut plan as in B+B vs. King or B+K vs. King how to win such an endgame?
Posted by wolstoncroft1 blitzbrain.com 12/15/2005 17:22:49 Play online chess	Check out this site Message: -> www.grandmastercorner.com Under the chessboard there is place to select the type of endgame you would like to study. There are three examples of Q vs. R. Hope this helps Tom
Posted by ccmcacollister blitzbrain.com 12/20/2005 18:35:09 Play online chess	hmmm Message: I'm not sure I'd win with the Q either ... my expertise seems to be in Holding those kinda positions }8-)) The plan seems kinda simple. You gotta win the rook or mate. (yeah I know) And if there are pawns with the rook and you dont have any, probly cant win anyways. I better go check out that site too ... Merry Holidays ——— Chess: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer? — Fischer's famous attack on the King's Gambit is interesting – but a long way from a refutation. In 1961 Bobby Fischer wrote "A Bust to the King's Gambit", a now famous article in which he set out, in typically uncompromising language, to do exactly as the title says. His idea was to play 1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Nf3 d6, avoiding the Kieseritsky variation (3...g5 4 h4 g4 5 Ne5) which Spassky had used to defeat him a couple of years before. The diagram position arises after 3...d6 4 d4 g5 5 h4 g4 6 Ng1 Bh6 and here Fischer claims that White has "no compensation" for the pawn. RB: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer? And you can see his point. With White's pieces all on ...
Posted by fmgaijin blitzbrain.com 12/21/2005 03:09:47 Play online chess	One Plan and One Trick Message: The basic plan is simple: to put the K + R side in zugzwang, forcing the R to move away from the K and allowing it to be won by a series of checks. The final zugzwang is, for example, BK g8, BR g7, WK f6, WQ h5. Note that if it's White's move here, White creates the zugzwang by "losing" a move with 1.Qd5+ Kh7 2.Qh1+ Kg8 3.Qh5. The "trick" is Black's best defense: trying to set up a R "blockade" on the 3rd rank (or 6th or c/f file). The K + Q side can still win if one knows how to break the blockade with another zugzwang (using K and Q to cover all the squares on blockade line), but both this zugzwang and the final one can be difficult to find OTB, though I've managed to win it all 3 or 4 times I've faced it in my career. ——— On Chess: Fischer's reputation as egomaniac unfair — In his account of the 1992 rematch between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, Yasser Seirawan offered his opinion - after spending hours with Fischer - that 60 percent of what he had read about him was wrong. Indeed, despite his often grievous negatives, there was another Fischer whom many of us experienced and admired. He could be kind and appreciative of others in many contexts. In a 1969 column that he wrote for Boys' Life magazine, Fischer praised U.S. junior chess champion Ken Rogoff and added: "It should encourage each of you who read this column to know that by applying yourself, as Ken did, you can become a fine chess player in a relatively short time." When the father of ...