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Aplopl3x

If you find any good King and Pawn endgame puzzles, post them here. This is where you would put something like Reti's 1921 study.

Aplopl3x

Let's start with a simple one.

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This is a little harder.

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Aplopl3x

And here is one of the hardest puzzles I've ever seen.

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aggressivesociopath

1...f6 2. exf6 in your third puzle is a draw.

Your second puzle has alternative moves and you missed a mate in one.

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Aplopl3x

Probably the most complicated puzzle with King and pawns.

Maya_Prasad
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NATHANKRISHNA

in your first puzzle shown with K and pawn if black K keeps to the same side

of white K it is a draw.

Aplopl3x
aggressivesociopath wrote:

1...f6 2. exf6 in your third puzle is a draw.

Your second puzle has alternative moves and you missed a mate in one.

I fixed the second puzzle by changing it a bit, because the final mate is on g4 instead of g3. Also, I realized that 2.exf6 was a draw,(2...Kf7 3.g5 d4 4.Ke2 c3 5.Kd3 Ke6) but 2.h4 would have won(2...fxe5 3.fxe5 Ke7 4.h5) if it wasn't for 2...g5. Now if 4.exf6??, black has 4...gxh4. It turns out that 4.hxg5 draws,(4...fxe5 5.fxe5 d4 5.a4 Kf7 6.Kc2 Kg6 7.e6 Kg7), but as a reward for finding 2...g5, I wanted to add some life. Also, I know that I could have gone faster, but I decided to do a bit of Cat and Mouse.

Aplopl3x

Here is a passed pawn puzzle.

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Aplopl3x

Which puzzle are you talking about? 6.Qh4 is not possible in the first puzzle.

Gatrai

very nice trick

Aplopl3x

Thanks Gatrai.

n9531l

Not easy to say what's the most complicated king and pawn position. This one's hard with only eight pieces. (White to play and win.)

 



Deepanshu_Gaur

perplexus can I get the png files of these chess puzzles