More King and Pawn endgame

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  LuisSR says:

  March 2, 2007 at 2:06 am

  I let a deeper analysis for other users. At a first view, I would play

  1. Kd5 Kc8/b8/a7
  2. Kc6 Kd8/b8/c8
  3. c3

  and then try to push with d pawn and later with the c one.

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  Anonymous says:

  March 2, 2007 at 3:44 am

  my first instinct is to play Kd5 also

  Kd5 c6+
  Kd6 b5

  This is a great puzzle. I worked it from here. but want to leave it for others to also get the solution.

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  Anonymous says:

  March 2, 2007 at 4:05 am

  Kd5 c6+
  Kd6 b5?
  axb5 cxb5
  Kxc5 +-

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  kuku mon says:

  March 2, 2007 at 4:16 am

  Kd5 then King to K to C6 or D6!

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  Anonymous says:

  March 2, 2007 at 3:47 pm

  I don’t believe white can win this. Black just shuffles her king between b8,c8. If white plays d4 at some point, black goes cd4, and there still doesn’t seem an idea for white to break through.

  For the earlier problem (with the c5 pawn on c6), this indicates that white must play 1.d4 to have any hope of winning.

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  Vohaul says:

  March 2, 2007 at 10:06 pm

  ahhh, come on @last anonymus – so i’ll take you by the hand…

  1.Kd5 c6+
  1…b5 2.axb5+-
  1…Kc8 2.Kc6 Kd8 3.c3+-
  1…Kb8 2.Kc6 Kc8 3.c3 Kd8 4.d4 cxd4 5.cxd4 Kc8 6.d5 Kb8 7.d6 cxd6 8.Kxb6+- do you remember?

  2.Kd6 c4
  3.dxc4 c5
  4.c3! a tempo is a tempo – and sometimes it helps a lot…
  4…Kb8
  5.Kc6 Ka7
  6.Kc7 Ka6
  7.Kb8 b5 zugzwang
  8.cxb5+ Kb6
  9.Kc8 c4 zugzwang again… 10.bxc4 Kc5
  11.Kc7 Kxc4
  12.b6+-