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masteryoda
Hello,
I was loooking at this webpage, and could not find a way to win with white.
Can you find a way to win? http://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-training/king-and-pawn-checkmate.php
orangehonda
Every legal move for white wins -- hope that helps
But seriously, get your king to a6 and you're good -- many beginners fall into stalemate and cannot promote the knight pawn, but this is a win.
If black to move it's easier.
Err, maybe not the best examples, but you get into stalemate when you swing the king towards the center of the board -- to avoid it go to the rook file... unless it's the 2nd diagram, then you can just do the standard bridge building.
TomBarrister
Not close. Any King move to the third rank is a draw: Black moves to keep the Opposition, and White has no spare Pawn move.
For the opening poster: The following position is standard in these endings:
The principle holds up on all files except the a and h (the Rook files) and with White's King on the 3rd, 4th, or 5th ranks. The pawn can be directly behind the King or one square to either side (e.g. any adjacent square behind White's King).
If Black moves, the Opposition is quickly lost, and with it the game:
1 ... Ka62 Kc5 Kb73 Kb5!
And not 3 b4?? Kc7! drawing as below
3 ... Ka74 Kc6 Ka15 Kb6 Kb16 b4 Ka17 b5 Kb1
I allowed Black the Opposition here, because it doesn't matter when White's King is on the sixth rank. 8 Ka6 Ka19 b6 Kb110 b7
And White promotes.
If White were to move in the diagram, it would be a draw.
1 Kc4 Kc6!
Black keeps the Opposition until White pushes the Pawn.
1 b4 Kb62 b5 Kb73 Kc5 Kc74 b6+ Kb75 Kb5 Kb8!6 Kc6 Kc17 b7+ Kb88 Kb6 stalemate
With that in mind, the winning move in the opening poster's diagram is:
1 b3!
With that move, White uses the extra tempo that the Pawn move gives in order to gain the Opposition and win as above.
Oh, you're right. I didn't even think of moving the king to the 3rd rank, which of course would be a draw.
How about any reasonable move wins for white ;)
With white to move it is still a win of course.
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