White to move. Is this a win or draw for White?
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White to move. Is this a win or draw for White?
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Easy win for White by bringing the King around.
Anonymous have you tried this with Fritz care to explain a bit more?
I thing it is draw, blank keeps long opposition.
When white king goes to d4, black must move to d6.
on Kd3 black moves Kd7!
on Kc3 black moves Kc7!, etc.
If part 1 was a win for white (a very very difficult one) then this must surely be a draw. No way to make progress for white because black will use the opposition and not let the white king in.
White has already his pawn in b5. I don’t think he’s going to win since he should give up a tempo, let’s try with triangulation… uhm uhm…
Easily a win for white due to the fact the black’s king has no ability to move to where white’s king can maintain protection over their pawns. So, with that said, The white king moves to b4 and on next move forcably makes black trade pawns. Now white can work on developing the pawn, but needs to keep in mind that their king has to stay w/ the pawn, because black could possibly become a threat twords an open pawn. So the pawn continuosly moves forward until b8 and promotes preferably to a queen, corners the king by checking him or “chasing”, and that finally leads to a checkmate.
To win K+P vs K, Logan, the White king must be able to get the opposition IN FRONT OF the pawn. That is not possible here…
1. Kb4 Kb7
2. c5 bc
3. Kc5 Kc7 =
How many have the right answer?
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Jack, I see that it could be a draw, but it all depends on if the player thinks like that or not. So it could be a draw or win either way for the win-
Kb4 Kb7
c5 bxc5+
Kxc5 Ka8
b6 Kb8
Kb5 Kc8
Kc6 Kd8
At that point black has no way to stop the promotion.
And the way you described could be a draw. So it all depends on the level that black is playing on.
Logan, you don’t know about chess, do you?
By your reasoning it can be a win for black too because white can blunder his two pawns.
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Anonymous, I do not appreciate that you do not think that I know anything about chess. And by the way, a win for black was not a choice.
draw with proper play by black
Logan, after
1. Kb4 Kb7
2. c5 bxc5+
3. Kxc5 Kc7 the game is a draw, your suggested move for black 3… Ka8 would be a terrible blunder for black
Yes, I am going with a draw now because it seems like the most probable thing to happen with blacks moves.
i could only find a draw.. i was hoping to see a solution.. even moving my king around to try and cut off the opposing king before exchanging pawns but it doesnt work.. is there a moral to this story.. dont try and promote a pawn one square from the sides??