White to move! Is this winnable? How should white proceed? This is NOT a one move solution.
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White to move! Is this winnable? How should white proceed? This is NOT a one move solution.
I suppose the white king should move and to get the D5 square
It would be hard to spend less effort or come up with a more obviously wrong response. Do you always make plans that depend on the opponent sleeping through your next four moves?
Anything other than 1. d5 is obviously a draw.
The first move is obviously 1. d5 to block d6-d5 and to take c6 and e6 away from the black king. I would then take the white king to the opposite side of where the black king goes if he advances, and then use d3-d4 if necessary as a waiting move to break the opposition (e.g., with black king on f7 and white king on f5, d4 forces the black king to yield) to win the black pawn. (And it’s easy to see how critical it is to have the white pawn on d5 to limit the squares the black king can use to defend his pawn.)