8.Kf2 was a sad move for your opponent.....if they just go Kd2 and grab the opposition, I think it's a draw....I mean, you just go by the stalker principle of drawn endgames and follow your opponent's king around until you repeat or agree to a draw. Am I missing something?
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Even if I'm not, there's no shame in grabbing victory from the jaws of the drawfish - nice win.
king and pawn endings are actually really fun to study.......I feel like they're one of the best ways to score wins for the below 1600 set. A lot of players can inflate their ratings based on strong tactical middlegames but cannot win an endgame unless there are enough pieces on the board to create middlegame-like tactical combinations (as opposed to K&P specific combinations - which are unique to certain endgames)Â
Absolutely!
It's more difficult winning with a cleaner board, unless of course you have a clear advantage, which I certainly didn't in this case.
See the thing is, it's almost like he didn't see the draw here. He was just not working with that mindset - or that set of typical end game tactics.
7. Kc4 might have been better.
Right! It would have turned the game around.
Probably gone something like this then?
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King-pawns endings are some of the trickiest for the low ranked 1350 players like me. Thankfully, this is a game I won, but my opponent lost a hard fought battle after over 60 moves because of one huge blunder.
Clearly there are a whole lot of obvious but important principles to remember and that's what the game hard!
I was playing black. Rest see annotations.