Can some explain to me why kf1 is such a good move? It makes no sense to me
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The queens are about to get traded. It is good to bring the king to the center in the endgame.
Also Kf1 allows you to chase a black knight from g4 by playing f3 and giving up pawn d4, but so that ... Qxd4 is not with check.
so it is prophylactic against queen check on d4 and improves king activity for the endgame?, still that the computer claims it is 2 points(pawns) better than any other move is not clear, like +4 should be winning easily, however in my opinion there is no clear win with kf1, I guess the engine sees far enough ahead
I would play 1.Bf6 Qf6 2.Qh5 leaving Black with an exposed king. Although there is no clear win for White, I would rather choose this over 1. Kf1. The exposed Black king plus the presence of Queens and the strong bishop looks good for White in my opinion. 3. Qh7+ is next and the Black’s king is in a dangerous position. Black needs to find the best moves here, which is difficult in over the board play situation.
tygxc wrote:
The queens are about to get traded. It is good to bring the king to the center in the endgame.
Also Kf1 allows you to chase a black knight from g4 by playing f3 and giving up pawn d4, but so that ... Qxd4 is not with check.
This is absolutely not the reason why. The real reason is purely tactical.
If you make a random move, black will trade queens and get into an endgame by playing 1. - Qxe5 2. dxe5 Re8. White can't take the f6 knight because the e1 rook would be hanging. Whatever you do, black is fine.
Kf1 defends the rook. Now black can't trade queens, and white's kingside attack wins (because the engine says so).
I guess it just good to be in the middle?
Yeah it's good!
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