Knight vs 3 pawns

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Avatar of rooperi

I lost this, could I have drawn? which way should the King go, and the Knight for the best chance?

Avatar of Nachos

i think the problem here is that blacks pawns are on either side of the board... maybe if you attacked the single pawn with the knight and the other 2 with the king, but then i think the king couldnt handle both. if you take the one behind you cant catch the other one which will promote i think

Avatar of immortalgamer

Lets assume that the knight can stop the one pawn on the a file and then get captured by the king.  Black can still win because the king cannot take the "h" pawn. (Why? Because the g pawn will push and queen)

So lets assume that the knight tries to block the progress of both the h and g pawns.  Then the white king will not be able to stop the pawn from queening because he will get caught in a zugzwang because of the knights inability to leave the blocking squares.  

There is not even a need to calculate the position because the "truth" can be seen in the position as is.

Avatar of Uncreative

http://chessok.com/?page_id=361 => endgame table base.

I am not sure if this one is accurate, it says black wins in 33 moves. There are others posted around I just couldn't find them right now. It is pretty hard to give a good analysis, given my sub GM status. Seems fairly lost for white though.

Avatar of Unknownuser25

A knight can barely handle a rook pawn by itself, let alone two rook pawns on opposite sides of the board.  This should be a win for Black

Avatar of Matt1728

yewa you're fucked