There is no doubt that the endgame is a fundamental part of chess theory and practice. Myself, I am quite a weak endgame player and I have a love/hate relationship with it. I'm sure we could all use a puzzle or two about the endgame which seem much more sparse than puzzles set in middle game where there are dazzling tactics at play.
nice strategy.
yea I probably shouldn't have done this in puzzle format, since there are actually multiple good moves by white and multiple moves by black. I was hoping to convey the main idea of this example, which is that the queen can not be stopped as long as white is a little bit careful.
6...Ra1+ 7.Kd2 c4 8.a8=Q cxd3 9.Qxa1 d2 10. Kxd2 Ke5 11.Qxd4+ Kxd4
Black's play seems off.
Rybka gives 1. ...ra4 after Bd3
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