good show chess quee

good show chess queen alexandra kouetnisk where are you going next? it is a great pleasure to be your fan. hail chess queen. loved your games at both rapid and blitz and watched all live. sorry about that half mark. but great performance overall best i think in both combined.

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One can only assume

One can only assume black can draw this, otherwise, why ask? I am not going to do an in depth analysis of this one anyway- simply too long to do thoroughly. As a six man endgame, a Nalimov tablebase is the best place to study this. What I will do is analyze the very beginning:I can really only think of one starting move in this position- Rf1+. Why this move? To cut the white king off from one of the pawns-.1. .....Rf1White has 4 moves- Ke3, Kg3/g4, and Ke5. Let's take them in order:Line 1 with 2.Ke3:2. Ke3 Kg6This move by black more or less plays itself. What black wants to do is to liquidate one of the pawns, and with the white king at e3, now, if the g-pawn falls, it is very, very likely the resulting rook ending with a single pawn will be drawn. With Kg6, black has pinned the rook to the 5th rank, and also prevented e5 for the moment. From here on, white will find it very, very difficult to actually hold both pawns while trying to advance the e-pawn.Back at move 2, white could try:2. Kg4 Rg1This move also plays itself. A particular feature of this position is that the black king from f7 guards g6-g8 and g6-e6 preventing the white king from escaping these rook checks by dashing up the h-file, or reaching g6 or e6. If, now, white plays Kf3, black plays Kg6 again and doubly attacking the g-pawn, which white can either guard with Kf4, or he can try to liquidate down to a king + pawn endgame by allowing the capture and exchanging rooks. However, the resulting king + pawn ending is drawn. So, on Kf4, black just continues the check assualt from the 1st rank.Or, at move 2:2. Ke5 Kg63. Ke6I don't think Kd6 is very different in the end. The idea of Ke6 is to allow the rook to shield from d6. Continuing:3. .....Ra1To harass the white king if necessary from the a-file. Again, white has trouble advancing the e-pawn while holding on to the g-pawn. If white tries to play Rf5, black can either simply wait by playing Rb1/a1 until white plays e5 at which time Ra6/b6+ is fatal to white. There are two key lines from this point- an immediate e5 and Ke7. Taking the latter first:4. Ke7 Ra75. Rd7 Ra46. e5 Kg5 (only move?)7. e6 Kg6 (only move?)And this is a classic endgame position that I already know is drawn:8. Rc7 Kg79. Kd8 Kf6 (only move again)10.e7 Ra8 (not Rd4??)11.Kd7Of course, Rc8 is drawn after the exchange at c8 of the rooks and black then takes at e7. Continuing:11. .....Kf7 and white cannot support the pawn's advance since, if the white rook leaves the seventh rank, black either checks at a7 forcing it's return if the pawn is to be saved, or captures the rook at c8 if white tries to shield the queening square by playing Rc8.Lastly, all the way back at move 4 in the line above, an immediate e5 changes nothing:4. e5 Kg55. Rc5Here, Ke7 isn't going to be different from the line previously.5. .....Kg66. Kd7 Rd17. Kc7 Kf7 and this will either reduce down to the position seen previously, or white will find it impossible to protect the pawn- one or the other.Now, a question is- could black draw this with any other beginning in the first two moves? I looked the starting position up in the Nalimov tablebase- 1. ....Rf1+ is the only drawing move.

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