prevent black pawn promotion

I'm pretty sure this game will end in a draw.

well ryan white ended up victorious!!

done i about 30 seconds

and also remember to go to my topic ''post your puzzles here!''

will do that linus911

Yeah, I'm getting a draw too. There are a lot of variations, and I'm not a strong player so I may be wrong.

In the starting position a pure pawn race would lose for black. Black needs 8 moves to move down the board, capture the knight and promote the pawn, whereas, white only needs five.

So, black can't bulldoze their way to victory, and something needs to be done about the threat of the white pawn.

White can try and use the pawn and knight to both block the black pawn and attempt to promote the 'a' pawn.

I now looked at getting the king to b6, aiding the 'a' pawn to promote. Black needs to defend against this threat. Again, there was quite a few variations. I tried to make the moves that were the best for both black and white.

Like I say, I tried to figure out the best moves for both black and white and the end results were a draw or both sides queening. I'm not convinced that my lines are completely correct. BUT, if you think that I'm wrong please explain why, and give your lines. It's fustrating when folk just type, no white wins without explaining why :)

Good post inferno - what were you playing as, white? I wasn't sure because you said Ryan was victorious.

no, he was telling me that white won. I wasn't playing.

RyanMK wrote:

no, he was telling me that white won. I wasn't playing.

 Ah, right, of course. Eh, yup, I agree with you, looks drawish.

thanx for the good input guys but unfortunately i was playing black and i resigned due to a number bad moves that i chose and not concentrating on keeping the white king at the bottom of the board. here is what really happened and as you will see i changed the original position of the white king for the puzzle.

De-lar, on move 3 can black not play towards the white pawn, 3...Kb4 securing a draw.

Move 5...Kb2, white can't take the black pawn the knight is being attacked and is not protected. The king also attacks the white pawn so if the knight moves the white pawn falls, if it does not move the black king captures the knight and after moveing the pawn to c2. The race to quen works to blacks favour after that.

you see my first thought was to attack the knight in order to promote my pawn no taking note that the white king is going to cut me off at the end. i realized this when the white king was on a5 and still i made a wrong move knowing what was going to happen. guess i had a brain fart at that point!!

Hmm, no, I think your right. After the king goes to b2, the pawn has to be advanced to protect it, this allows time for the white king to come back and protect the knight :)

Sorry, just saw your above post after I had written my last one. Yeah, your right, it's 100% win for white. I think it is quite a tight win for white, plenty of room for things to go wrong, but as you say the pawn promotes :)

Good analysis.

im enjoying all this input!! makes me realize that i didnt give it enough thought during the game!! thanx guys

e7? hmmmmmmmmm

easy!

tonydal wrote:

In the originally posted position, White can also win (and with a lot less hassle) by playing 2 Kb6 and then pushing the a pawn.  You should probably add (at the end of the variation you give) 8... Kc3 9 Nc1 Kd2 10 Na2--oddly, the only way to win that position.

 the end of all my variations is that I resigned! thanx