Chess puzzles: Climb the staircase
When it comes to Rook endgames, the staircase motif is often the most difficult to work out. How about (not one) but two staircase chess studies? Can you find the solutions without looking through the moves in the flashplayer below?
Hope you enjoy the puzzles.
1. White to play and win
H. Rinck, La Strategie, 1977
And, here's another.
B. Horwitz
White to play and win.
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Labels: chess puzzle, endgame study
posted by Chess Blog Admin @ 9:57 AM
1 Comments:
At September 3, 2010 at 7:02 PM ,
Will Taylor said...
I've never seen this 'staircase motif' before. It certainly looks cool, though I'd imagine opportunities for practical application are rather limited.
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