The pawn on e6 is certainly a bear, but it's quite clogged up on the kingside.  How to proceed?

That's a pretty sweet position. Instructive, too. Thanks for that.

Very good one! Than you. I have an advice - delete the solution while 'almost' nobody saw it , post it as a diagram only - that would be ten times more interesting and challenging, preventing guessing move by move. You may post the solution with annotation later, even including all lines at ones, as it will be just diagram, not puzzle.

I actually prefer to have the solution handy myself (this has been discussed on the forums before).

Please share the link to those discussions.

I had a look, but I cant find it now. But I certainly remember at least one occasion where I (respectfully) disagreed with NM tonydal on the same issue.

Solved it! only because I saw this problem before on chessproblems.com

Seriously?  Do you have a link for that, mf92?  I just came up with it myself (actually, it came out of my earlier post:  Intriguing Pawn Ending).

I agree with Tonydal w/r/t the issue. If I'm going to spend some time on a position, then I want to be able to look at the solution after I'm done with it. It's very frustrating to me when people only post a diagram and say "teehee! I know the solution, but I'm not going to give it until people massage it out of me with posts describing their attempts because I'm a cocktease."

Awesome puzzle! Very instructive too. I'm never going to look at king and pawn endgames the same way after this!

great thank u

great thank u

this puzzle is thinkable puzzle.

Puzzled puzzle would be more creative.

Couldn't find it but it was on www.chessproblems.com, the queen side didn't look like that, but the pawnbreaktrough idea was the same