Reti (1928)
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cdaguer
Dec 6, 2018
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#1
Dec 6, 2018
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#4
Yes, that's the well-known study I referred to. Who composed the three Black pawn version?
Dec 6, 2018
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#5
The two study were made by Reti. The first with only one pawn in 1921 and the second in 1928
i didit
Dec 6, 2018
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#8
Bien joué. This study nicely illustrates the complexity and subtlety of K+P endings.
Dec 10, 2018
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#9
Chessopera a écrit :
Reti’s puzzle is very intereting as visually it seems impossible for white to win.
Yeah
Dec 23, 2018
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#10
Wow. White can’t win, but they can draw. I had to look up the answer on Google because I thought that you were trolling us with an impossible puzzle!
Dec 23, 2018
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DavidEricAshby a écrit :
Wow. White can’t win, but they can draw. I had to look up the answer on Google because I thought that you were trolling us with an impossible puzzle!
Lol ;!
Feb 3, 2019
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#13
This endgame idea has always been one of my favorites 
Without knowing the winning technique, hopelessly having the King run in a straight line seems natural - after all, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line right? Well, perhaps not in chess 
At the very least, one could say that the shortest distance is not the winning one here.
Feb 4, 2019
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#14
KeSetoKaiba wrote:
This endgame idea has always been one of my favorites Without knowing the winning technique, hopelessly having the King run in a straight line seems natural - after all, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line right? Well, perhaps not in chess At the very least, one could say that the shortest distance is not the winning one here.
Exactly right. Pythagoras Theorem does not apply on the chessboard.
Feb 11, 2019
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#16
I since learned that both endings are presented in Alex Fishbein, King and Pawn Endings (1993). I now have this book.
Awesome!
Feb 26, 2019
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#19
^
You don't really mean this as a win for White do you? Looks like a draw to me