Category: R+P vs B+P

  When, in a similar position, the black pawn is in the starting position, it is crucial whether the king and the bishop cover the surrounding squares in the right way. The next position, which emerged in the game Bolbochan-Maderna, Mar del Plata in 1949, has two significant  shortcomings compared to example 391....

  When, in a similar position, a black pawn is fixed on a square of bishop’s color, White usually wins by careful transformation into a position with close pawns. We will get to know all the complexity of the winning strategy on the example of the ending of the game Korchnoi-Speelman, Brussels 1985.  ...

  We will consider a few more educational positions with pawns on adjacent files separated by more than one rank. When Black has an ideal defensive position with a pawn on the square of the opposite color of the bishop, White cannot achieve anything even when his pawn is two ranks away from the opponent’s,...