52. Kf5
It felt like a lost: need help to improve endgame
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The final position is a won pawn endgame. But if you want to win endgames, you have to study them. There is no substitute.
There are many good introductory books on endings (Pandolfini, Silman, Seirawan). There's also Starting Out: Pawn Endgames by Flear and Secrets of Pawn Endings by Mueller. I publish pawn endgame articles. Perhaps some of these will help you.
Kf5 wins. say Kf7, g6+; Kg7, Kg5 and he cant stop ur pawns from queening. but nice game friend. i assure i had games worse than that.
Thanks likeforests. I just purchase
Fundamental Chess Endings-----Karsten Muller & Frank Lamprecht
Mastering the Endgame------Glenn Flear
Chess Endings------Yun Averbakh
Capablanca's Best Chess Ending------Irving Chernev
Understanding Pawn Play in Chess------Drazen Marovic
Dec 16, 2007
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Kf5 kicks the king out from the square in front of the pawn. If your king can occupy that square you have a queen.
About the chess books, you can only read one at a time.
yep, I don't read just one book at a time.
Sitouation can be solved in many ways so I just give another.
Apart from 52. Kf5 it is also possible to win by playing in the move 53.Kf8
instead of going back (Ke6 as in the game) after 53. Kf8 your opponent has two
legal moves Kh7 and Kf5
after 53. ...Kh7 54. Kf7 wins black's pawn
and after 53. ...Kf5 54. Kf7 secures a clear path for the g-pawn
The white gets the black pawn with the following moves. So, the white wins.
52.Kf5 Kf7 53. g6+ Kg7 54. Kg5 Kg8 55. Kxh5
Or
52.Kf5 Kh7 53. Kf6 Kg8 54. g6 Kh8 55. Kg5 Kg7 56. Kxh5
Here is a game which I played on Yahoo. The time limit was 10 minutes for each player. This game I felt I was winning at first, then the game shift after move 17. However, I believe I still had winning chance, but my knowledge of endgame ending is lacking. So here we go!