2020年8月20日 · Ra6 is a common idea. Neither brilliant nor dubious. Ra6 is a nice idea and a good attacking pattern to keep in mind. The rook finds itself very far from the action with the …

2010年10月6日 · Paul Morphy is my idol. So, i know what Morphy think for this solve. 1) Ra6 bxa6 2) b7# OR 1) Ra6 Bc7 2) Ra7#

2018年8月25日 · Play online Paul Morphy's famous chess problem. White to move and mate in 2. How quickly can you solve this puzzle?

2023年9月28日 · Ra6 is the only move that accomplishes this goal. Ra6 Kd1+ 2. Kf3 e2 3. Ra1+ Kc2 4. Kf2 stops the pawn. The more natural-looking Re6 fails because Black's king can hide …

Everyone is saying Ra6 but you can move the rook to any a-file square and have mate in 2, the a pawn is pinned and the only other move is the bishop to leave the pawn

2022年12月11日 · Rh6 is not check (let alone mate), there is a white pawn on h2. Oh. Can't the rook just go anywhere on the 6th rank (except for h6) then play Rh6#? Yes, and no. Since the …

All Rook Endings are Drawn... (except for those that aren't!) Here's what got me started on this session. After an entertaining earlier struggle, Black is trying to win a Rook ending in a …

Rummaging through youtube openings last week I found a neat one where black eventually pushed a5 and followed that with Ra6. Black's third rank was clear of pawns so he slid the …

2017年1月29日 · Not too hard, but nice today. 1 Ne7+ Re7 [] 2 Qf6! 2…Ng6 3 Rd8+ Re8 4 Re8+ and when the queen captures, the Ra6 is LPDO. Another puzzle from Dragoslav Andric's 1981 …

If we allow black to play a6, we can no longer mate in 2 because the only check we would be able to give is Rxa6+, which loses our rook to bxa6. Black can’t play a6 after Ra6 because our rook …