As black has the upper hand, should white try to go piece-a-piece (Rooks for Rooks) or try and get the two rook endgame.
1r3rk1/p1p2p1p/3p2p1/Rp2p3/3bP1P1/1P1P4/2P3P1/5R1K w - - 0 1
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Sign up to join this communityAs black has the upper hand, should white try to go piece-a-piece (Rooks for Rooks) or try and get the two rook endgame.
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Black has an extra bishop and two extra pawns. Black is completely and easily winning, and white can't do anything really constructive.
Black's easiest way to win is to promote a pawn to queen and then checkmate white; that in turn is easiest if white's rooks are exchanged off (take all rooks off the board, and black just plays a5, a4, a3, a2, a1=Q).
So that's what white should avoid -- if there is a choice, don't exchange the rooks!
That said, resigning is also a perfectly normal action for white in the given position.
Black has an extra piece and 2 pawns, with an extra pawn being on each side of the board. Black has no glaring pawn weaknesses. If the rooks are off the board, White's only chance, and it is a slim one, will be to lock the pawns up in such a way that Black can make no progress. I don't see how he can do it, especially with those doubled pawns on the g file. For example, Black could play f6
followed by h5
or work towards g5
(to lock the white pawn), Kg6
, h5
, then f5
. White cannot contain the pawns. And that is without taking the Bishop into consideration.
In short, Black wants to get those rooks off the board.