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[Puzzle Road] The pawn is stronger than the rook! (P28)

[Puzzle Road] The pawn is stronger than the rook! (P28)

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Endgames. More endgames. Again, endgames. Always more endgames. Never enough endgames!
Today’s puzzle is (again) an endgame. This puzzle comes from a position of my coach in a real OTB game in a tournament. Black wins. But how?

Try to find the correct moves to promote the pawn without loosing the game! It’s not very difficult, but still strange, because in this case, White can (normally) not stop the pawn! The pawn is in this exercise stronger than the rook if Black play the right moves!

28/ The pawn is stronger than the rook! (Topic: 7th rank and pawn promotion)

The right idea:

The right idea in this puzzle is, with the king, to walk on a square where we can attack the rook. If we directly play King f4. If we do this, White can put their rook on the f8 square and take the f-column. After that, they can take the pawn whenever they want and make draw.
We need to play Kg4 – Kg5 – Kg6 – Kf7 (!!)

In this position, White cannot take the f1-square or check anymore the king! Furthermore, our opponent cannot go on the f8-square after our pawn promotion, to check the king and take the queen, who are on the same f-column, because our king already takes it!

Good work friends! Continue your training, good luck for your future games and have fun in playing chess!
@Kyu13

                                   

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