Puzzle 10

Queen vs Pawn II

Last week you saw though the queen wins it, but i´ll show an example where black can keep a draw!

Queen vs Pawn III

And here is a sequence of moves where black could keep the draw:

hmm

What about Kf4 in first position after all moves in puzzle? Still looks like we can close in with the King..

Second position: 1) Qd1+ Kg2  2) Qe2+ Kg1 (Kh1 will lead to Qf1 mate) 3) Ke3 - If black queens in h1 now Qf2 is mate..

In any other try King will have to move from first and second rows and again Queen can block h1 and avoid pawn queening !!!

does this make sense? or am I missing anything?

I think we can keep swapping between a2 & b2 in the first puzzle with King. If Qc3 then we can go to back rank and look for the stalemate if Q*c2. I am now convinced the first puzzle is a draw :)

ArulvelKumar, you're indeed right about the second puzzle, didn't thought of that, just wanted to show that if the opponent king is too far away, you can draw the game if you have an a,c,f,h-pawn

nice puzzles!

I did that! I know this endgame of queen vs pawn of seventh rank.

I ain't possible with any other pawn. Only with h,a and c,f pawns. This position is very practical also, perhaps White has just made a queen and black is trying to make his but has lost the race. Good one!

thank you!