Answers.Body: <p>With white to move, as you indicated, it is a trivial win for white. Your rook on g8 is en prise to the white rook on g1. White plays RxR+ and you are just a rook down.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: The irony is last move black had Rxe2+ Kxe2 Rxg1 winning a rook themselves. Hilarious post OP, thanks for the chuckle.
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Body: <p>I'm a complete novice in chess and I don't know if this even qualifies as endgame with so many pieces left, but I ended up in this position playing as black vs. a king's pawn debut. I sort of tried to play king's gambit of my own, despite playing black. As you can see, I won on timer, but is this position winnable to either side, or it a stalemate / draw? Assuming both sides play perfectly, of course - which they did not up to this point, but my question is theoretical.</p>
  <pre><code>[Title &quot;White to move: Is it draw?&quot;]
  [FEN &quot;2k3r1/1p3p2/2p5/p2r3p/8/P2P3P/1P2RK1P/6R1 w - - 0 1&quot;]
  [Startflipped &quot;1&quot;]
  </code></pre>
  <p>The only advantage for black that I can see is the pawns being advanced one more line, my goal would be to sneak one pawn up to the 1 line, but it's hard to see for me whether that's doable.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Whose turn?  It looks like whoever moves first wins a Rook.  It seems like it's White's turn since Black has just played R(x)d5, so 1 Rxg8+ wins.  If it were Black's turn then 1 . . . Rf5+ would for 2 Ke3(Ke1) and then Rxg1(+) would win.  If Black's move was not a capture then Black could have won with either Rf5+ or Rxe2+.
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Comments.Text: @NoamD.Elkies: white to move. Thanks for the analysis! Indeed, I missed that obvious move, looks like the best black can do is trade two rooks for one, and white will have a hard time losing. Funny how the timer changes everything in clocked games.
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Title: Is this endgame winnable for either side?
ThreadText: # Is this endgame winnable for either side?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-08-10)
  
  I'm a complete novice in chess and I don't know if this even qualifies as endgame with so many pieces left, but I ended up in this position playing as black vs. a king's pawn debut. I sort of tried to play king's gambit of my own, despite playing black. As you can see, I won on timer, but is this position winnable to either side, or it a stalemate / draw? Assuming both sides play perfectly, of course - which they did not up to this point, but my question is theoretical.
  [Title "White to move: Is it draw?"]
  [FEN "2k3r1/1p3p2/2p5/p2r3p/8/P2P3P/1P2RK1P/6R1 w - - 0 1"]
  [Startflipped "1"]
  
  The only advantage for black that I can see is the pawns being advanced one more line, my goal would be to sneak one pawn up to the 1 line, but it's hard to see for me whether that's doable.
  
  **Tags:** analysis, endgame, winning
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Whose turn?  It looks like whoever moves first wins a Rook.  It seems like it's White's turn since Black has just played R(x)d5, so 1 Rxg8+ wins.  If it were Black's turn then 1 . . . Rf5+ would for 2 Ke3(Ke1) and then Rxg1(+) would win.  If Black's move was not a capture then Black could have won with either Rf5+ or Rxe2+.  
  > **username_0**: @NoamD.Elkies: white to move. Thanks for the analysis! Indeed, I missed that obvious move, looks like the best black can do is trade two rooks for one, and white will have a hard time losing. Funny how the timer changes everything in clocked games.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2022-08-10. Score: 11 | Accepted answer
  
  With white to move, as you indicated, it is a trivial win for white. Your rook on g8 is en prise to the white rook on g1. White plays RxR+ and you are just a rook down.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: The irony is last move black had Rxe2+ Kxe2 Rxg1 winning a rook themselves. Hilarious post OP, thanks for the chuckle.  
  
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