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White must occupy f2 to ensure a draw. Therefore White must be able to move to the 5th row whenever Black approaches the white pawn.
1. Kc6 Ke4 (or Ke3)
2. Kc5 Kf3
3. Kd3 Kg2
4. Ke2 Kxh2
5. Kf2 draw
1. Kf6? Ke4
2. Ke6 Kf3
3. Ke5 Kg2
4. Ke4 Kxh2 will win
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Rainer
Same reasoning here.
You cannot stop the Black king from capturing the pawn, so the key thing is to be able to box him in after the capture.
The critical square is f2. If White plays intuitively 1.Ke6, heading towards the pawns, he allows the Black king to play towards the h-file without himself getting any closer to the second rank.
So the correct move is Kc6. As soon as Black heads towards the pawns, White will head for the f2 square, reaching it just in time.
Yup. The idea is to lock black on the h-file after capturing the pawn. White needs to follow the black king in from the left and NOT from the top because coming from the top, the black king keeps white off from f2 and f1.
Good answers: it seems that ‘f1’ is as useful as ‘f2’ which suggest that coming in from the the e-file rather than from higher-numbered ranks is the key.