The story of two rooks and one knight, -told in five pictures!

Submitted by mauerblume on Fri, 10/03/2008 at 3:23am.

So what do you know about rooks? At least you will know that they open or half-open files, that they can work.-

But what are rooks ideal way to work in middlegame/ early endgame? Here is the 5-step-program

1. occupy a open line with one rook and control it

2. double rooks in that line

3. get with one rook at second or seventh rank

4. Get them both on the second or seventh row

5. Let them work with the help of other pieces

Let`s go to the knight! Where is the ideal position for it? Yes, it is in the center without the possibility to be chased away!

In one of my normal chess games I got ideal knight position and rooks working in an ideal way. I will show this game in five pictures ( diagrams), because pictures can often tell us more than moves Smile

( The whole game is uncommented at the end .-I will post it commented next days in my blog)

1. picture: After the opening black has adventage in piece development

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here we can see clearly black`s adventage in piece development. All my pieces are developed and active. Rooks are on a open and a half-open file and the knight is fixed in center.-

White has problems with piece development. Ra1 and Bc1 cannot move and Nd5 will removed from his position by Rc4

2. picture : rooks are coming along the line

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. picture : rooks change to the second row

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Picture: Knight and pawns helping the rooks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. picture: the endposition:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So you have seen the 5-step-program and the knight at work?

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Comments:

by thewolf72 - 1 month ago
Rome Italy
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Thank you ! It's very interesting !

by mauerblume - 2 months ago
Duesseldorf Germany
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Yes, that would have been a better strategy for white: Giving one ot two pawns to get out of passivity!- But also then black adventage would have been clear

by bunkerputt - 2 months ago
Austin United States
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Highly instructive.  Instead of white playing to protect his pawns with Rb1, he should have given some material in order to gain some activity.

by trippel - 3 months ago
Cherry Willingham United Kingdom
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I have a lot to learn!  Thanks for the lesson

by 21stcenturyschizoid - 3 months ago
Montreal Canada
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instead of taking the pawn on d5 white should have played 10.Nc3 which does not allow black to get such a powerfully posted Knight.

by figrock - 3 months ago
United States
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Thanx for the education..!

by santiR - 3 months ago
outside Washington D.C. United States
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nice.

by bigfish - 3 months ago
Mississuga Canada
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Good diagrams

by mauerblume - 3 months ago
Duesseldorf Germany
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Yes, the bishop had no way out and before captured by the knight, he was sacrified at f4!- But the whole game will be posted in my blog in the next days

by Dilling3r - 3 months ago
Nebraska United States
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black used bishop to kill white knight. rook came out and took the bishop then went back to defend.

by Beelzebub666 - 3 months ago
England
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Perhaps he resigned over the ordination of women.

by DXBrea - 3 months ago
Traveling Canada
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I don't get it.... what happened to black's bishop??

by RaZhaN-k - 3 months ago
suleymany Iraq
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thanks for posting!

 

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