In this episode of I discuss a famous study by Ladislav Prokes.

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[pgn_compat]
[Event “?”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2014.08.29”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Ladislav Prokes, 1944.”]
[Black “White plays and wins”]
[Result “*”]
[Annotator “Waldemar Moes, Better Your Chess”]
[SetUp “1”]
[FEN “8/1P6/p1p5/2R5/k7/P7/1r6/3K4 w – – 0 1”]
[PlyCount “9”]

1. Rc4+ Kxa3 (1… Ka5 2. Rb4) 2. Rc3+ Ka4 (
2… Ka2 3. Rc2) 3. Rc1 $1 {The beautiful point, Black has no good way to stop
White’s idea of Ra1+ pushing Black’s king to the b-file from where it would
block Black’s rook after which the passed pawn can promote.} Rxb7 4. Ra1+ Kb5
5. Rb1+ {And White wins the black rook. Note how black’s pawns are in the way
of his king, which cannot move backwards to protect his rook on b7.} *
[/pgn_compat]

PGN notation:

[Event “?”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2014.08.29”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Ladislav Prokes, 1944.”]
[Black “White plays and wins”]
[Result “*”]
[Annotator “Waldemar Moes, Better Your Chess”]
[SetUp “1”]
[FEN “8/1P6/p1p5/2R5/k7/P7/1r6/3K4 w – – 0 1”]
[PlyCount “9”]

1. Rc4+ Kxa3 2. Rc3+ Ka4 3. Rc1 Rxb7 4. Ra1+ Kb5 5. Rb1+ *