Think You Know Your Pawn Ending?(Puzzle)

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hanngo

White to play and win

Gloomy

Nice one.
It always bugs me off that the fact moving the king to some 'natural-looking' squares guarantees a fail. 

hanngo
Gloomy wrote:

Nice one.
It always bugs me off that the fact moving the king to some 'natural-looking' squares guarantees a fail. 


Yup,sometimnes the key move is something that you wouldn't think about first time over,then see that its the only move left after seeing everything else loses

VLaurenT

Is it a study ? Do you know the author ?

Gambitknight

Gotta disagree with the puzzle solution.

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kco

hate to break the new gambitknight 2.e5 !

Hypocrism
kco wrote:

hate to break the new gambitknight 2.e5 !


2.e5 draws.

kco

how ?

kco
TheOldReb
Hypocrism wrote:
kco wrote:

hate to break the new gambitknight 2.e5 !


2.e5 draws.


2 e5  wins after 2...fxe5  3 g5 e4 ( what else ? )  4 Kg1 !  1-0 

kco

thanks for the quick draw Josey Wales.

Hypocrism
 

kco wrote:

how ?



This is what I was referring to, unfortunately I didn't see Reb's 4.Kg1

CoachConradAllison

Blackadder

moreover, Kf1 fails in style: