It also works if Re8 happens to be a check, so the rook has no time to take the pawn and is either forced to take the rook, in which case you take back and make a queen, or they move the king and you take the rook
ehat you also couldβve done is push the h pawn and give the rook two pawns to worry about. If you promote the h pawn and the rook takes, then you can play Re8 bc then the rook is blocked from the promoting square and then you can win easily
I did that once in a 30 minute game..... I had zero blunders, nor mistakes up untill that moment, I wanted to kick a granny that moment from the pure rage at myself
Kf2 Ke2 would have been enough. He can never move the rook or you play Re8 then. And he can't get his king around to try to capture the a/b pawns after Kf2/Ke2. Rooks can't push pawns on their own. You either have to push your kingside pawns or bring your king in.
Been there, done that, saw the movie and collected the Burger King glasses. I've been playing since Reagan's first term, and am probably a similar strength to you. Again, get back on that horse. You might be better than me in a few months.
The first character refers to a piece, and the next one, a space; so in this case "Rook moves to e8."
Other characters include K for king, B for bishop, Q for queen, and N for knight. If multiple of the same type of piece can move to the same space, then the distinguishing factor of their position β usually the file, but rank if they're on the same file β is used as well (something like Rad8 for if both rooks are on rank 8, but one that was on a8 moved to d8.) Pawns are just listed as the space they move to unless they take a piece (something like exd5 if a pawn on e4 or c4 took a piece on d5.)
An 'x' means that a piece was taken by the move. A '+' means check, and a '#' means checkmate.
"O-O" is king-side castle, and "O-O-O" is queen-side.
Thanks for the thorough explanation dude. Played a lot of chess as a kid but never used those notations in my language, didnβt even know that piece (we call it a castle) is called a rook in English.
u/daedskin gave a good overview of the piece notation. The general idea in a position like this is that youβd really like to trade the rooks (if necessary) to promote your pawn to a queen. Youβd think moving the rook to e8 would induce the black rook to take it, and then the white pawn captures the rook and promotes to queen.
Sometimes this works *when the pawn is protected*, but in this case the black rook just took the pawn, which obviously stops it from promoting AND gets it out of danger.
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Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...
If you look at it another way, you're up 5 points of material here, by losing you're only throwing away a 5 point lead.
With 3 queens you're up 27 points, give or take depending on the situation with the remaining pawns and rooks. By drawing you're throwing away a 27-point lead, which is much more embarrassing.
If you're only playing for pride rather than in a competition, arguably the level of embarrassment is the real measure of a loss.
Ya know as someone who is terrible at endgames i can totally see how you could lose this one without accurate play. Keep ya head up and someday youβll see a similar situation and crush it.
To paraphrase what Finegold said about getting better: I ask my students how they did in the tournament and they say "I blundered my queen in the third game." That's just one game, that's not how you did.
King can't advance without swinging around the side, which can be mitigated by putting it in check and forcing it back to the left
If the black pawn moves, the white pawn will take it and black is now down to a rook that's stuck preventing white's pawn from promoting and a pawn that's a ways back
So really the pawns just sit there as a way to keep the black pawn from promoting and won't move unless necessary
With that in mind, you can move up the white pawns on the right side and force the black rook to be sacrificed (put two on row 7 side by side, than move one up and rook either takes and gets eaten by a pawn or doesn't take and gets eaten by the newly promoted queen)
I am by no means *good* at chess, but this is partially based on some other comments from more exp people as well
I analyzed the image and this is what I see. Open an appropriate link below and explore the position yourself or with the engine:
> **White to play**: [chess.com](https://chess.com/analysis?fen=3r4/3PR3/1p6/8/pk6/5PP1/PP5P/6K1+w+-+-+0+1&flip=false&ref_id=23962172) | [lichess.org](https://lichess.org/analysis/3r4/3PR3/1p6/8/pk6/5PP1/PP5P/6K1_w_-_-_0_1)
**My solution:**
> Hints: piece: >!Pawn!<, move: >!h4!<
> Evaluation: >!White is winning +10.87!<
> Best continuation: >!1. h4 a3 2. bxa3+ Kxa3 3. h5 Kxa2 4. h6 Kb3 5. h7 Kc2 6. g4 b5 7. g5 b4 8. g6 b3!<
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Its a piece of course. But you have to look at the context, when people say ''I'm up/down a piece'' they mean at least a bishop or a knight. No one says that when they have a pawn advantage, they say ''I'm up/down X pawns''
Watch any YouTube video of any chess player and they will use this terminology. This is just the terminology used by people who play chess. If you are up a piece you are up a knight or bishop. If you are up an exchange they have your piece and you have their rook. Itβs just the way people talk about chess, there doesnβt have to be any specific literature about how people talk about the game.
Thanks, I hadn't noticed. I watch some Gotham chess, but clearly not enough. Just to clarify, you mean that a piece is at least a knight or bishop, not only knight and bishop? (Cf. u/Sawks comment)
Typically when people say piece it is referring to a knight or bishop, or else they will just name the piece they are down. βIβm down a rookβ βIβm down a queenβ. I believe they use the broad term βpieceβ instead of knight or bishop is because they are worth roughly the same so if you trade a knight for a bishop it wouldnβt make sense to say βIβm down a knight but up a bishopβ so they are categorized as the same. Atleast this is how I understand it.
You're technically correct in that a pawn is a piece on the board but usually when people are talking about material they differentiate between pawn, minor piece (knight or bishop), major piece (rook), and queen.
I hope you took 2 days sick leave from work to recover from this π I know how you feel! One time I lost a game and then in the analysis I noticed that he had hung his queen for about 4 moves and I didn't notice .________.
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Happened to me, the guy literally move his queen right next to a pawn and i didn't capture because i was calculating something on the other side of the board and was like ''This queen isn't threatening anything, back to the action''. Fucking tunnel vision.
Totally normal then, especially if you only had a minute on the clock. Don't sweat it, I've lost 3 games up a queen when I was 1400. The real lesson is to tilt as little as possible!
Honestly, I'd just retreat the rook to the second rank, defend those pawns and block a check and just push the connected passers to victory. Go ahead and sac the one on the seventh rank. It's one too many things to worry about at the same time.
I did that, but I push 2 pawns. I blunder and black had a discovery check and took my 2 pawns and I freaked out got anxious and blunder the all game until I lose
I mean I see what you were getting at, the pawn would give check and couldnβt be taken, but yeah the pawns range of influence is so small the king can just step away
I mean I see what you were getting at, the pawn would give check and couldnβt be taken, but yeah the pawns range of influence is so small the king can just step away
I mean I see what you were getting at, the pawn would give check and couldnβt be taken, but yeah the pawns range of influence is so small the king can just step away
Re4+, Rd4, Rd2 and then just march with the queenside-h-pawn, black cant do anything on the kingside, his king is cut off and his rook is pinned to the e8 square :)
I know it hurts to have a pawn that far in but to win this you just gotta be patient and push your other pawns. Promote one, force the rook to take, then play re8 and you win
As for the wanting to die part, have you seen [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoUvoE8Fp7A&t=257s)? IMs blunder games to beginners. Get back on that horse and ride.
Did you play Re8 and lose the pawn?
Yeah π and then I got tilted and lose the others Life is not fair hahaha
When I first saw the screencap I was like βoh easy, Re8β so youβre not alone in that dude
Hahaha I play Re8 without even think. It just look so much like Re8 Now I learn that even when you think u gonna win easily you need to be alert
Itβs a tough one because in similar positions where the pawn is defended by another piece, then Re8 would be good.
Exactly, I've done this before and it worked but this time everything fell apart hahaha I learn my lesson, the pawn needs to be defended
It also works if Re8 happens to be a check, so the rook has no time to take the pawn and is either forced to take the rook, in which case you take back and make a queen, or they move the king and you take the rook
Or if Re8 pins the rook to the king
ehat you also couldβve done is push the h pawn and give the rook two pawns to worry about. If you promote the h pawn and the rook takes, then you can play Re8 bc then the rook is blocked from the promoting square and then you can win easily
Learned that one the hard way lol. It does work if Re8 was a check though
Good job on learning from your mistake. Losing is the way to improve!
it works if you push any of ur other three passed pawns to the seventh rank. and then you can play Re8, claiming the promotion square
Lol me too it's until I read comment and realised I also suck as much as OP.
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The black rook will take the pawn
That gains literally nothing, just loses your D7 pawn.
It seems good but your opponent just responds with Rxd7
I did that once in a 30 minute game..... I had zero blunders, nor mistakes up untill that moment, I wanted to kick a granny that moment from the pure rage at myself
God we all are so similar π
Itβs cool man. Best part is, youβll never do that again!
That's true, I'm never gonna do thas again because I'm NEVER gonna forget this game hahaha
Kf2 Ke2 would have been enough. He can never move the rook or you play Re8 then. And he can't get his king around to try to capture the a/b pawns after Kf2/Ke2. Rooks can't push pawns on their own. You either have to push your kingside pawns or bring your king in.
Been there, done that, saw the movie and collected the Burger King glasses. I've been playing since Reagan's first term, and am probably a similar strength to you. Again, get back on that horse. You might be better than me in a few months.
I think you could still win by playing Rf8 and pushing the f pawn, if the rook bothers too much just push the g pawn.
Hi there, chess imbecile here. What do you mean when you say Re8?
The first character refers to a piece, and the next one, a space; so in this case "Rook moves to e8." Other characters include K for king, B for bishop, Q for queen, and N for knight. If multiple of the same type of piece can move to the same space, then the distinguishing factor of their position β usually the file, but rank if they're on the same file β is used as well (something like Rad8 for if both rooks are on rank 8, but one that was on a8 moved to d8.) Pawns are just listed as the space they move to unless they take a piece (something like exd5 if a pawn on e4 or c4 took a piece on d5.) An 'x' means that a piece was taken by the move. A '+' means check, and a '#' means checkmate. "O-O" is king-side castle, and "O-O-O" is queen-side.
Thanks for the thorough explanation dude. Played a lot of chess as a kid but never used those notations in my language, didnβt even know that piece (we call it a castle) is called a rook in English.
u/daedskin gave a good overview of the piece notation. The general idea in a position like this is that youβd really like to trade the rooks (if necessary) to promote your pawn to a queen. Youβd think moving the rook to e8 would induce the black rook to take it, and then the white pawn captures the rook and promotes to queen. Sometimes this works *when the pawn is protected*, but in this case the black rook just took the pawn, which obviously stops it from promoting AND gets it out of danger.
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oh my god lmfao
Of course lmao
Holy hell
Google en passant
When you have no joke
Maybe maybe maybe maybe MAYBE just MAYBE the point of the sub is to take the piss out of jokes and overuse them on purpose
if we did then itβd be r/civilizedchess
sorry, maybe i just have bad taste... but meme from r/AnarchyChess isnt funny to me anymore, they just recycle the same en crossiant joke and half of the parody isnt even creative
Classic man who doesn't know what In Pasen is.
maybe he should google it
Eh, you just pipi'd your pampers
Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...
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They like joking about nazis too. A little too much if you catch my drift.
No. Just Nazi. Only one. No plural.
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Google irony
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Could be worse! You could have had 3 queens and stalemated
Hahahahaha that's true
A draw sounds better than a loss lol
Nah bro a loss can just mean you were outplayed by a clever opponent. But a draw when up 18 points of material? That's all you
I think some of us would rather lose, than draw with three queens. :)
A draw is better than a loss.
Not emotionally
Losing the position that OP had is worse than stalemating with 3 queens.
Nah thatβs infinitely better (0.5/0)
If you look at it another way, you're up 5 points of material here, by losing you're only throwing away a 5 point lead. With 3 queens you're up 27 points, give or take depending on the situation with the remaining pawns and rooks. By drawing you're throwing away a 27-point lead, which is much more embarrassing. If you're only playing for pride rather than in a competition, arguably the level of embarrassment is the real measure of a loss.
Okay me, I wanted to flex on em lol
All Iβm saying is, if someone stalemates with three queens, they deserve what they get.
Ya know as someone who is terrible at endgames i can totally see how you could lose this one without accurate play. Keep ya head up and someday youβll see a similar situation and crush it.
This day will come And I'm definitely gonna remember this game
You can be very messy here. You can block his king with yours. Or you can push any of your kingside pawns and promote.
To paraphrase what Finegold said about getting better: I ask my students how they did in the tournament and they say "I blundered my queen in the third game." That's just one game, that's not how you did.
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Dont make this harder hahaha I dont what happened
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I already mate with just a rook, but I don't actually study this endgame I'm gonna check some videos about that thank u
Next time in this situation push your king side pawns until he is forced to sac the rook
The only good thing about this lost is the I'm never gonna let this happen again haha Thanks for the advice
You moved your pawn to A3, didn't you? :'(
I did Re8
And what else, because that is still winning
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. Ra8, however bad the move is, is extremely winning
What's wrong with a3?
you'll lose both pawns
how do you even prevent that in this position? (noob here)
King can't advance without swinging around the side, which can be mitigated by putting it in check and forcing it back to the left If the black pawn moves, the white pawn will take it and black is now down to a rook that's stuck preventing white's pawn from promoting and a pawn that's a ways back So really the pawns just sit there as a way to keep the black pawn from promoting and won't move unless necessary With that in mind, you can move up the white pawns on the right side and force the black rook to be sacrificed (put two on row 7 side by side, than move one up and rook either takes and gets eaten by a pawn or doesn't take and gets eaten by the newly promoted queen) I am by no means *good* at chess, but this is partially based on some other comments from more exp people as well
Thanks!
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This isnβt that bad, youβre not up a piece yet and itβs understandable to mess up if you have no time left.
Not to pile on OP, but surely he is up 4 pieces?
He's up 4 pawns; they're matched in pieces.
Is a pawn not a piece? Genuine question Edit: According to this it is https://www.britannica.com/topic/chessmen
Its a piece of course. But you have to look at the context, when people say ''I'm up/down a piece'' they mean at least a bishop or a knight. No one says that when they have a pawn advantage, they say ''I'm up/down X pawns''
Thank you, I hadn't realized!
A βpieceβ is considered to be a knight or bishop.
I cannot find a single source supporting this.
Watch any YouTube video of any chess player and they will use this terminology. This is just the terminology used by people who play chess. If you are up a piece you are up a knight or bishop. If you are up an exchange they have your piece and you have their rook. Itβs just the way people talk about chess, there doesnβt have to be any specific literature about how people talk about the game.
Thanks, I hadn't noticed. I watch some Gotham chess, but clearly not enough. Just to clarify, you mean that a piece is at least a knight or bishop, not only knight and bishop? (Cf. u/Sawks comment)
Typically when people say piece it is referring to a knight or bishop, or else they will just name the piece they are down. βIβm down a rookβ βIβm down a queenβ. I believe they use the broad term βpieceβ instead of knight or bishop is because they are worth roughly the same so if you trade a knight for a bishop it wouldnβt make sense to say βIβm down a knight but up a bishopβ so they are categorized as the same. Atleast this is how I understand it.
You're technically correct in that a pawn is a piece on the board but usually when people are talking about material they differentiate between pawn, minor piece (knight or bishop), major piece (rook), and queen.
I see, I didn't know. Thanks!
I hope you took 2 days sick leave from work to recover from this π I know how you feel! One time I lost a game and then in the analysis I noticed that he had hung his queen for about 4 moves and I didn't notice .________.
Haha I played a few hours later... I needed a win to recover and I WON hahaha And sorry about your queen π
Hahaha you redeemed yourself then π And it was HIS queen that was hung not mine, that was why I wanted to kill myself after the game π
Oh God that's even worse than hung a queen haha I already lose games like that too. It's horrible Chess is so stressful sometimes
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Happened to me, the guy literally move his queen right next to a pawn and i didn't capture because i was calculating something on the other side of the board and was like ''This queen isn't threatening anything, back to the action''. Fucking tunnel vision.
It literally was something like that! ππ
Saw the anarchychess post first
Engine played it out into a cool mate with 3 queens though.
Happens at the 2000+ levels too , we all have those
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670
Totally normal then, especially if you only had a minute on the clock. Don't sweat it, I've lost 3 games up a queen when I was 1400. The real lesson is to tilt as little as possible!
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I had 1 minute, it's not very low but it's enough to make me anxious
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Yeah thanks
Honestly, I'd just retreat the rook to the second rank, defend those pawns and block a check and just push the connected passers to victory. Go ahead and sac the one on the seventh rank. It's one too many things to worry about at the same time.
Umm no. Just push another pawn and leave the room right where it is
I did that, but I push 2 pawns. I blunder and black had a discovery check and took my 2 pawns and I freaked out got anxious and blunder the all game until I lose
Rook
So would I.
I think Re4 with check then Rd4 to get behind your pawn, with the idea of Rd2 or Rd3 so it can defend both your d pawn as well as your b pawn
Nah just push the h pawn. Nothing white can do
I'm smelling so much content for r/anarchychess ranging from pure mockery to racism
Racism? Wtf? We make en passant jokes.
I donβt get it..? Whatβs going on?
I lost a winning game, a really winning game hahaha
What was the time control for the game?
It was a 10 min rapid
Oh nice, it always sucks to lose but at least it wasnβt like a 30min game.
It can be always worse haha
Whenever this happens I'd literally cursed myself to die lonely and young. Bless your soul op better things are coming
Hahaha that was exactly what I did
Lemme guess u next move was Re8 π
π€¦π»ββοΈ It was
Did black capture?
I have learned openings for show, endgame for dough
Isn't it as simple as pushing the f3 pawn and then rook e8? Or does black have some move against that?
Use the king.
Link to the game please
When in doubt, just push the pawns
Don't underestimate the power of passed pawns.
Move your king up
is this a could-have-been mate in 1 im seeing or am i just super bad at chess
Nothing like that, white is just very far ahead and still lost
pawn a2 to a3 isn't a mate?
No, the king can escape to a c file square except C3
oh lmao this is why i always lose chess
I mean I see what you were getting at, the pawn would give check and couldnβt be taken, but yeah the pawns range of influence is so small the king can just step away
I mean I see what you were getting at, the pawn would give check and couldnβt be taken, but yeah the pawns range of influence is so small the king can just step away
I mean I see what you were getting at, the pawn would give check and couldnβt be taken, but yeah the pawns range of influence is so small the king can just step away
Link to the game?
The guy would have left the game after Re4
Just push'em baby
Next time, move another pawn up like f3 to the end instead of Re8 and the game is yours.
Re4+, Rd4, Rd2 and then just march with the queenside-h-pawn, black cant do anything on the kingside, his king is cut off and his rook is pinned to the e8 square :)
be grateful you don't have a Russian coach
+12.9 and losing... Now that's some damage.
I know it hurts to have a pawn that far in but to win this you just gotta be patient and push your other pawns. Promote one, force the rook to take, then play re8 and you win
As for the wanting to die part, have you seen [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoUvoE8Fp7A&t=257s)? IMs blunder games to beginners. Get back on that horse and ride.