Learn · master endgames · Won from an equal position
Paul Keres – Lajos Steiner
Munich ol (Men) 1936 · Queen and rook vs. queen and rook · 1-0
Start of the endgame, move 39
The story
From the 1936 chess olympiad in Munich. After 39…♕e3+ Stockfish sees White more than six pawns ahead. After the exchange of queens 41.♕e5 41…♕xe5 42.fxe5 Keres collects pawn after pawn in the rook endgame – 47.♖xc6, 49.♖xa7, 52.♖xg5 – and pushes the f-pawn up to f7: 56.f4, 58.f5, 60.f6, 61.f7.
The value along the endgame
↑ above: White better ↓ below: Black better
The moves from the start of the endgame
Values: Stockfish 19 at depth 24 with a time limit, for White in pawns; from five men or fewer the verdict of the Syzygy tablebase. A measurement that did not reach the depth does not count.