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F 12

White is trying to promote his pawn to win the game, but Black's king is blocking the pawn's path. Black plays a "sixth-rank defense" by moving his king to g6, cutting off White's king from the sixth rank and securing Black's king in front of the pawn. This disrupts White's plan to use his king and rook to drive Black's king away. Now White struggles to make progress as Black gives checks from behind the pawn. Black has neutralized White's advantage for the moment.

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F 12

White is trying to promote his pawn to win the game, but Black's king is blocking the pawn's path. Black plays a "sixth-rank defense" by moving his king to g6, cutting off White's king from the sixth rank and securing Black's king in front of the pawn. This disrupts White's plan to use his king and rook to drive Black's king away. Now White struggles to make progress as Black gives checks from behind the pawn. Black has neutralized White's advantage for the moment.

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 White executes a typical

manoeuvre of moving closer to black rook.


 
 The king is too close and Black has no
more checks.  and
White's win is a now matter of checkmating with
rook and king against the king.


This is one of the most important theoretical and


practical rook endgames. White has an extra
pawn. His winning plan is simple - push the pawn
forward and promote it to a queen. But in this
position, black king is in the way of the pawn. So
White needs to kick away the king from e8 with
his rook and king. Having all this in mind, Black
plays a move that disrupts White's plan.

 This move cuts white king off the 6-th Stopping White from giving the deadly check on
rank (this is why this is called a sixth-rank .
defense), securing the position of his own king in
front of white pawn.  The problem for White is that he can't
hide from checks on e6 anymore because his
 would be an inaccurate defense because
pawn is already there. This is another
White has (would allow the sixth
rank-defense just like in the game.) characteristic of the 6th-rank defense – luring
(or )  and white king white pawn on  !
hides onWith the following  check,
White has succeeded in his plan.  White has nothing better than
moving towards black rook.
 The only attempt. White threatens  . The
point is that White can not chase the king away
only with his rook:  and 

there is no progress for White.

 The right move. The rook has done its job
on the 6th rank and now goes behind white pawn
in order to give checks from behind.

 would be a mistake that would lose the


game. White would get his king to the sixth rank
with: 3. d6 threatening checkmate in one move
 The only defense is  but after
 White has finally succeeded in
his plan – he kicked away black king from
Now the pawn can freely promote to a queen.

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