- Kg5 is either a mistake or a typo. The solution is 10. Kg6, with the rest as given. With a reflection, this is #605 in Averbakh’s Rook Endings.
Thank you. It seems as though the chessboard is just barely not too large for this to work. If there were 9 ranks, this technique wouldn’t succeed.
Bill Smythe
Anyway, back to the 3-rooks position. Jeff Wiewel has the answer. I’m surprised I had never imposed this study on him on person, as he is from Illinois.
Now let’s add a complication – the h1 square is occupied:
Can white still win?
Bill Smythe
Bill can’t white work its king to A1 and then win?
Yes that was a typo on my part. It should be 10. Kg6 . I plead the ‘fat finger’ defense. 
Nope. Black then plays …Ra2+ forcing an immediate stalemate. (This applies to the initial version, without the knight, also.)
Bill Smythe
This doesn’t seem too difficult. Just move the king so that the knight can interpose and then it’s like the original problem.
- Kf3 Rg3+ (Rf2+ has a similar method)
- Ke2 Re3+ (2. … Rg2+, 3. Nf2 and after the knight is taken you end up using the original method)
- Kf1 Rf3+
- Nf2 Rxf2+
- Kg1 to be followed by Kh1.
This post has been very interesting. You should update your original post after a while with the solutions and the answer to how to post diagrams on this forum. Now I know 2 great chess diagram creators!
http://www.jinchess.com/chessboard/composer/
http://alain.blaisot.free.fr/DiagTransfer/English/home.htm
I personally like this one.
That’s an awesome site. Thank you for sharing it!
- Enrique
I have been using the chessvideos.tv game replayer to post games in blog posts, but unfortunately it doesn’t appear to support variations, annotations, and NAGs. I haven’t really played with their diagram generator since I have always played around with the jinchess one.
Recently someone recommended this site, http://chessflash.com/chessflash.html , on the chesspub forums for posting games and it seems to handle most things pretty well.
ChessFlash is indeed very nice (I’m using it on Chicago Chess Blog). Sometimes it slightly modifies the PGN, so that going from PGN to ChessFlash back to PGN is not pristine, but that’s a minor glitch.
Here’s an example.
chicagochess.blogspot.com/2010/0 … -ouch.html
And another, from Gary Walters’s blog:
I’ve been using chessflash on my blog for over two years, and have been very happy with the results. Here’s an example where I’ve put three different games into one post. It’s set so the board doesn’t show until you click on it. It makes the opening of the page faster without displaying by default.