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by Imustaskforhelp 503 days ago
I am exactly 1600 at chess.com rating and though I don't do puzzle's much , what I do know is that if you push the white king to b2 then that pawn is losing , take that pawn and then you have 2 bishop endgame which is really really hard .

I once had a bishop and a knight endgame , I think It became draw on repetition.

Asking AI to do this is definitely flawed. This isn't reasoning. From what I know of 2 bishop end game , its more of hey lets trap the king in a box untill you could then snipe the king with your bishop (like his king could be on h1) yours on h3 your 1 bishop targeting g1 and the other bishop anywhere on the main diagonal with no other pieces.

But this is very much stalematey , since I am currently pondering how to get to this position without a stalemate! , if you move the bishop later , its stalement , Like seriously. https://www.chess.com/forum/view/endgames/two-bishop-checkma...

Just search 2 bishop checkmate is hard , a lot of guides exist just for this purpose , though in my 1000+ games I rarely got once or twice 2 bishop endgame , usually bishop or knight which is just as tricky or if I recall , the worst is knight and knight.

2 comments

Replying to your other questions: Its been a while since I played chess regularly (in a chess club), but:

Two bishops (of different colour) is actually not that difficult. There are some simple heuristics to help you there (an LLM might actually tell you these, haven’t asked;-0)

Bishop+Knight is, in my opinion slightly more complicated, there are some ‘tricks’ necessary to keep the king from running from one courner to the next.

Bishop+bishop is - in most situations - a draw (you need three knights to mate).

oh I didn't knew bishop + bishop is draw in most situations. Sorry mate!

Also I am not sure , I thought that we were playing as white , but are we playing as black ?

But there is a reasoning (see my reply above): winning is not possible (only the queen is strong enough against two bishops), so draw should be the goal. And underpromoting to knight is only way to keep the piece for another move while still promoting.
its actually surprising how many difficult puzzles can be solved by a very small look ahead and playing the only move that doesn't lose. i've even seen strong GM solve puzzles like this. this is especially useful when the first move in the puzzle is very clear but there might be 5 or 6 reasonable candidate moves in reply and its just a waste of time to compute each variation.