A Primer of Chess by Capablanca?

I posted this in puzzles first, but I think that was the wrong place for it. So I've moved it here.

I've been reading through the book A Primer of Chess by Capablanca, and I'm having a hard time understanding something in the book. He says it's essential to understand as many of his later examples rely on an understanding of it.

In his first example he stated that White can not win in the following position as long as Black stays in front of the Pawn and if unable to do so, stays in front of the King:

Which I agree. Then he states that white wins in the following position as the King is in front of his Pawn and there is one intervening square:

I can't see how this would be the case though with the moves he demonstrates that are as follows:

At this point he shows the next move as Ke7. Which didn't make any sense to me. He then states that if the move had been Kf5 instead, White would be forced to adavance the Pawn since he would otherwise have to leave the Pawn open to the King. Then he says that since that didn't happen it's better that White not advance the Pawn yet, since it's own safety does not require it. The problem is he leaves it at that and does not explain how White can regain the initiative if Black should move to Kf5, which to me would be the most logical choice.

So according to him if Black chooses Kf5 then White will be forced to respond with e4+.

So from my point of view it would play out as follows:

So they end up with the same set up as first described by him as impossible to win, with Black maintaining the front position. So I would see the match continuing as follows:

Is there something I'm missing here?

If you happen to have the book, you can find this on pages 33-36.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

In your second diagram from the bottom, on 3. ... Kf5 instead of 4. f4, you should play 4. Kd5 then if 4. ... Kf6  5. e4 Ke7  6. Ke5 achieving the winning position.

Ah, I actually made a blunder when reading the notation. The book was wrote in 1935 and uses the old English Notation. So it's wrote P-K3, K-B4, etc. So I confussed one of the steps. He actually has 3. Kd5 not 3. Kd4, which of course makes a lot more sense.

Thanks for that! ^_^