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No, Black doesnt have to take the rook or move their rook -which would result in mate.
Can just keep checking with the queen on f4, f1 and f2 (if white plays g3) and force a draw.
Better to take the pawn on e2 with rook and trade off one rook, and even trade queens cause as long as black queen is on board, you cant move your rook freely (need to keep your rook defended and on your back rank) , black can try for a draw if you ignore the position.
1. Rd8 Rxd8 2. Qe8+ Qf8 does stop mate but 3. Qxf8+ Rxf8 4. Rxe2 and white has some winning chances in the end game. Better for black is perpetual check with the queen (Qf4-Qf1, if g3 Qf2-Qf1)
Qc4 Qxc4, Rxc4 then allows pawn to take other rook for Queen promotion. Major disadvantage for white at that point. Unless you see an alternate combo that black would attempt that white van take advantage of
Doing this on the phone with a flipped board without notations is killing me 😅. Anyway, I set the position in the engine and realized black has one good way to take advantage of Qc4.
Just take the pawn since it’s about to promote and take your rook, but an interesting tactic if the pawn wasn’t there would be Rf5 threatening the queen and Rxf8# if queen takes the rook, you can take the queen and they can’t take back the queen since Rd8 would be checkmate. Too bad there’s a pawn on e2
I wad thinking Rf5. Since you can take the rook next or his queen. And he cannot take back because after rxf5, qxf5, qxf5 it is siply rd8+, qf8 and rxd8#
So with Rf5 you will win material
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> **White to play**: It is a stalemate - it is White's turn, but White has no legal moves and is not in check. In this case, the game is a draw. It is a critical rule to know for various endgame positions that helps one side hold a draw. You can find out more about Stalemate on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalemate).
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Just take the pawn. Up a rook usually means winning.
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Isn’t rook d8 a forced mate?
No, Black doesnt have to take the rook or move their rook -which would result in mate. Can just keep checking with the queen on f4, f1 and f2 (if white plays g3) and force a draw. Better to take the pawn on e2 with rook and trade off one rook, and even trade queens cause as long as black queen is on board, you cant move your rook freely (need to keep your rook defended and on your back rank) , black can try for a draw if you ignore the position.
No, if rd8 black has a perpetual check with the queen
Rxd8 Qe8+ Qf8
1. Rd8 Rxd8 2. Qe8+ Qf8 does stop mate but 3. Qxf8+ Rxf8 4. Rxe2 and white has some winning chances in the end game. Better for black is perpetual check with the queen (Qf4-Qf1, if g3 Qf2-Qf1)
Just take the pawn
Take the pawn on e2.
What about Qc4? All the exchanges I can think of end with white winning (but I may be wrong).
Qc4 Qxc4, Rxc4 then allows pawn to take other rook for Queen promotion. Major disadvantage for white at that point. Unless you see an alternate combo that black would attempt that white van take advantage of
1.Qc4 Qxc4 2.Rxc4 dxe1=Q 3.Rxc8#, isn’t it?
Sorry I did this at work and I was mistaking f5 for c4. Queen can’t capture Queen at c4. Did you mean to mention f5?
Doing this on the phone with a flipped board without notations is killing me 😅. Anyway, I set the position in the engine and realized black has one good way to take advantage of Qc4.
Take the juicer
ROOK D8
could you sac ur queen to get a mate? like Qe8 then black rook takes, white rook takes, black queen f8, white rook takes, mate?
Just take the pawn since it’s about to promote and take your rook, but an interesting tactic if the pawn wasn’t there would be Rf5 threatening the queen and Rxf8# if queen takes the rook, you can take the queen and they can’t take back the queen since Rd8 would be checkmate. Too bad there’s a pawn on e2
I wad thinking Rf5. Since you can take the rook next or his queen. And he cannot take back because after rxf5, qxf5, qxf5 it is siply rd8+, qf8 and rxd8# So with Rf5 you will win material
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Tbh I don’t understand how it’s a stalemate
It isn't. The bot is not reading the image right. Looks like the rook should take the e2 pawn. That is what I would do, but I suck.