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Can I possibly win in this kind of situation?
I just played a game a few hours ago on Chess.com. There's one particular point of time I'm interested.
[title "White to move"]
[fen "8/P1R5/1K6/7p/5pk1/8/8/r7 w - - 0 1"]
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Is this endgame winnable for either side?
I'm a complete novice in chess and I don't know if this even qualifies as endgame with so many pieces left, but I ended up in this position playing as black vs. a king's pawn debut. I sort of tried to ...
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Is there a terminology for "the worst winning move"?
What do people call a move which maintains a winning position but is the worst among all such moves?
For example, h8=N+ is such a move in the following game:
[FEN "8/7P/6k1/8/8/8/B1K5/8 w - - 0 1&...
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How is a game of chess won?
My understanding is that there are basically two ways in which a game of chess is won.
(1) One side gives (or forces) checkmate, regardless of material situation on the board. He may be in material ...
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Can White win this Q+P endgame?
Can white win this queen and pawn endgame?
From this position put Black queen on the best defensive square, and then it will be White's to move.
[FEN "8/1PQ3pk/6pp/8/8/8/8/3K4 w - - 0 1"]
It might ...
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What happens if a player mistakenly thinks they have been checkmated?
A quote from Wikipedia:
The objective is to 'checkmate' the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture.
Suppose two players (A and B) play the game using the old ...
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Is this endgame position a theoretical win or draw?
The following tactics problem comes from ChessTempo, and was taken from a game between Anatoly Karpov and Alexey Kuzmin. It's white's move.
The idea of the problem is to find white's best move from ...
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