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Blue or Red Pill? XXIII

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So what's winning the World Championship? The Berlin Defence and rook endings, that's what. Clearly Magnus is a reader of this very blog. There's no evidence for that, but it is a fact.








Black to move


Anyhoo, just in case today doesn't bring us four in a row, here's a little action to keep you going. A pair of positions based on diagrams that appear on the last page of Minev's A Practical Guide to Rook Endgames (he, by the way, says he got them from Levenfish & Smyslov), Black has the move in both cases, but there's only one draw.

So,



Half-point saved right here





This is the draw you're looking for



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